30, College Green

BRISTOL

ST5872NW COLLEGE GREEN 901-1/15/57 (North East side) 08/01/59 No.30

GV II

House, now shop and office. c1730. Possibly by James Paty the elder; ground floor 1865-6 by Foster and Wood. Limestone ashlar, red sandstone ashlar and granite, brick gable stacks and a slate roof. Mid Georgian style with Venetian Gothic Revival-style ground floor. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Ground-floor arcade of 5 semicircular arches with moulded hoods, the left-hand one to a through passage set apart, with granite piers and carved marble capitals to the inner windows, sandstone piers to the ends with moulded capitals, with inscribed foliate decoration with black mortar; across the top is a carved limestone band of acanthus leaves. The upper floors have outer pilasters strips, the middle 3 windows broken forward with pilasters, to a band and string, modillion cornice and parapet. Plate-glass ground-floor windows, small 5 stepped voussoirs to first-floor sashes, 3/6 to second floor. The left-hand arch to an open carriage passage with corbels to C19 roof; a good 6-panel side door to the upper floors has back cross-boarding. INTERIOR: ground floor with cast-iron stanchions to roof and moulded corbels. First-floor has a left-hand open-well stair with an uncut string, stick balusters, column newels and a ramped rail.

Listing NGR: ST5839972824