Freshford Kingston

BRISTOL

ST5773SE RICHMOND HILL, Clifton 901-1/9/984 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.20 AND 21 Kingston and Freshford (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND HILL (North side) Nos.20 AND 21)

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now offices. 1833. By Charles Dyer. Limestone ashlar with external and party wall stacks, and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 6-window range. Principal front to Queen's Road in 2 sections: left-hand section is symmetrical with projecting wings with banded ground floor to a plat band, paired first-floor pilasters with carved capitals set forward, to a moulded frieze, dentil cornice and parapet with paired pilasters to a pediment and a central panel with Greek key decoration; tripartite ground-floor windows, first-floor windows with architrave and pediment. In between a central tripartite window has broad panelled jambs, below fluted Corinthian columns in a distyle-in-antis recessed first-floor bay, containing a pedimented tripartite window. Balconies have cast-iron balustrades with palmettes. The right-hand section has a central external stack with first-floor pilasters, a central ground-floor window and semicircular-arched first-floor windows either side of the stack, with 2 attic windows cut through the frieze and cornice above. The right-hand return has a left-hand 3-light full height bay with curved sides, pedimented first-floor middle window with a balustrade apron and panels over the flanking windows, and pediment to right-hand window. The left-hand return has a large semicircular-arched stair light with margin panes. The rear entrance front is a near-symmetrical 4-window range, with outer entrance porches to entrance sections that break forward under shallow parapet pediments. Single-storey porch to No.21 has panelled jambs and 6-panel door, and a balustrade between dies, the deeper 2-bay porch to No.20 in matching style; a wide second-floor panel across the centre. Architraves, with pediments to outer first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes; the left-hand end is set back with an external stack. INTERIOR: No.20, marble-flagged lobby with a half-glazed door to an entrance hall and central lateral stair hall with Greek Revival-style plaster decoration; a lateral top lit stone cantilevered open-well stair has cast-iron balusters with palmettes and a curtail; panelled reveals to 6-panel doors. Part of a fine group of three 4-sided villas to the N side of Richmond Hill, which "..set a new standard for suburban aspirations." (Mowl). (Mowl T: To Build the Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 160; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 275).

Listing NGR: ST5759773370