Dover Cottages Numbers 1-11 (Consecutive) And Attached Basement Area Railings

A terrace of eleven houses, numbers 1 to 11, built in 1863, located on Dover Place in Clifton, Bristol. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with a roof that is not visible. They follow a double-depth plan and are designed in a Classical style with Gothic-style window detailing. The terrace is three storeys high, with a further three basement levels, and each house has a two-window range.

The design includes a ramped centre to the parapet. Each house features two full-height raised sections containing the windows, with a moulded coping that projects forward over these sections. The ground floors are banded between the sections and feature doorways with trefoil heads, fanlights with round lights, and four-panel doors with rounded tops to glazed upper panels. The semicircular-arched windows have vermiculated spandrel panels and plain surrounds with shoulders; the torus-moulded frames feature three semicircular lights on the ground floor and two on the upper floors, with circular upper lights set between them. The windows are fitted with plate glass. Numbers 9 and 10 have doorways on the right-hand side, while number 11 includes a two-storey porch with a side doorway.

The rear elevation has a two-storey canted oriel. The lower two basement levels function as separate houses, with doorways to the upper floors linked by a raised path.

The interiors of the upper houses feature an entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch supported by corbels, leading to an open dogleg staircase with turned balusters. These houses also have six-panel doors, panelled shutters, and cornices.

Attached to the terrace are spear-headed cast-iron basement area railings. The cottages were built on the side of a quarry, uniquely utilising the natural slope of the ground to increase the available accommodation.