St Ambrose Almshouses

BRISTOL

ST67SW PARK CRESCENT, St George 901-1/56/1844 (North side) 04/03/77 St Ambrose Almshouses

GV II

Almshouse of 8 attached cottages. c1914. Probably by WV Gough. Snecked, red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, timber studding with pebble dashing on the first floor, brick gable and ridge stacks and tiled roof with gablets. L-shaped single-depth plan. Arts and Crafts style. One storey with a 2-storey corner block; 4 bays in the long elevation, 2 in the short left-hand one. Cottages of a door and single bay, large lintel with segmental arches over doors with integral overlights, beneath a short cornice on floral brackets; small, leaded window to the side, and shallow, canted bays with 9/1 sash windows. The L-shaped corner block has an ashlar porch across the angle, with an open 4-centred archway below a flat lintel and open spandrels. The front of the porch is incised to form a first-floor bay window, above which is a stepped pediment with a ball finial; there is a cartouche above the arch and a shield in the pediment. To the right, 3-light mullion windows on the ground and first floors. INTERIOR: few decorative details include dogleg staircases with moulded square newels and banisters. Part of a group with the church and church hall of St Ambrose, Stretford Road (qv).

Listing NGR: ST6183773904