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

BRISTOL

ST5673SE SION HILL, Clifton 901-1/7/1017 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.2 AND 3 and attached area railings, gate and piers (Formerly Listed as: SION HILL Nos.2 AND 3)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1800. Limestone ashlar, brick party wall stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 1-bay range. A matching pair, the right-hand one set forward, with outer pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, sill bands and first-floor string. Steps up to left-hand doorways with shallow recessed surrounds and deeply-set doorways with plate-glass overlights and 6-panel doors, the top pair raised with cut off corners. Full-height 3-light bows have panelled ground-floor aprons with curved 6/6-pane and flanking 4/4-pane sashes, 3/6-pane and 2/4-pane second-floor sashes, with blind boxes. 2 dormers and single basement windows. First-floor timber tented balconies have wrought-iron pointed-arched railings with quatrefoils and stanchions. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a central lateral open dogleg stair with stick balusters and a wreathed rail and curtail, lit by a round lantern, with a room between the stair and party wall, semicircular-arched recesses, 6-panel doors with reeded architraves, panelled shutters and fire surrounds. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front basement area railings and gates with urn finials, and capped banded piers. A most distinctive design which benefits from the use of bold full-height rounded bays with fine tented balconies.

Listing NGR: ST5665873008