Deerhurst Priory

Deerhurst Priory is a house dating from around 1860, located on Downsider Road, Clifton, Bristol. It is constructed of Brandon Hill Grit rubble with limestone dressings, featuring external stacks and a roof with bands of red and black double Roman tiles. The building follows a double-depth plan and is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The house is two storeys with an attic and basement, with a five-window front. A drip moulding sits above a band of glazed tiles, and there is a shallow eaves Lombard frieze. A gabled porch is centrally positioned, featuring a trefoil doorway with a plank door. The ground floor has windows with similar heads, paired windows to the left and a triple window to the right. The first floor has flat-headed mullioned windows, with one and two lights to the left, three to the right, a three-light oriel above the porch supported on stone brackets with quatrefoil panels and trefoil heads, and a bowed corner oriel to the left end, resting on a carved foliate corbel and featuring seven lights with cusped heads and open tracery. There is a deep, moulded base. Two widely-spaced gabled dormers have mullioned windows with alternating stone relieving arches. The left return displays two gables, with a ground-floor bay to the right and an external stack to the left. The right return has a gable with an external stack. The interior was not inspected. The design echoes that of Hansom’s Nos 1 & 2 Worcester Terrace.