Numbers 2 And 3 And Attached Area Railings, Gate And Piers

Numbers 2 and 3 are a pair of attached houses built around 1800, located on Sion Hill in Clifton, Bristol. They are constructed from limestone ashlar with brick party wall stacks and feature a slate mansard roof. Designed in a late Georgian style, each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a one-bay range. The right-hand house is set forward and includes outer pilaster strips, a cornice, a parapet, sill bands, and a first-floor string course.

Access to the left-hand doorways is via steps, which have shallow recessed surrounds and deeply-set doorways with plate-glass overlights and six-panel doors, the top pair of which have cut-off corners. The ground floor features full-height three-light bow windows with panelled aprons, curved six-over-six pane sashes, and flanking four-over-four pane sashes. The second floor has three-over-six pane and two-over-four pane sashes, with blind boxes above. There are also two dormers and single basement windows.

On the first floor, timber tented balconies are adorned with wrought-iron pointed-arched railings featuring quatrefoils and stanchions. Inside, the entrance hall has a central lateral open dogleg staircase with stick balusters, a wreathed rail, and a curtail, illuminated by a round lantern. There is a room between the staircase and the party wall, with semicircular-arched recesses, six-panel doors with reeded architraves, panelled shutters, and fire surrounds.

The houses also feature attached wrought-iron front basement area railings and gates with urn finials, along with capped banded piers. This distinctive design is enhanced by the bold full-height rounded bays and elegant tented balconies.