13, Victoria Avenue

This is a late 18th-century house, now used as a garage, located in Easton, Bristol. The building is constructed with Flemish-bond brickwork, decorative limestone dressings, brick stacks, and a pantile roof. It has a double-depth plan and is built in a mid-Georgian style. The two-storey facade has a symmetrical design with rusticated pilaster strips, a decorative frieze, a cornice with ball dentils, a coped parapet, and gables. The front doorway features a semicircular arch framed by a Gibbs surround and an open pediment with ball dentils, entablature blocks with roundels, and Tuscan columns. Five stepped voussoirs with dropped keys top the plate-glass sash windows. The central first-floor window also has a semicircular arch with a Gibbs surround. The rear elevation has windows framed with stepped voussoirs and 8/8 sash windows, including an arched stair window at the centre. The ground floor at the front has been opened up to create a garage. The room at the back left retains its original cornice, a large ceiling rose, and a plain marble fireplace. The detailed cornice motifs are otherwise only found at Harley Place, Clifton. The building’s combination of late 18th-century details with earlier-style brickwork and windows is unusual, particularly given its location in a less fashionable part of the city, making it an important survival.