Chesterfield Buildings

A terrace of four houses, built in the mid-19th century and partly converted to offices, located on Westbourne Place, Clifton, Bristol. The buildings are constructed from limestone ashlar, with brick party wall stacks and a mansard roof covered in slate and concrete tiles. They follow a double-depth plan and are designed in a Neoclassical style. Each house has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a single-window frontage. The terrace exhibits a composed appearance with projecting wings. These wings feature rusticated quoins, alternating between concave and convex ends, and incorporate a first-floor band of medallions below a cornice. Pilaster strips run along the attic frieze, accompanied by a row of pears below. The central section displays incised strips above the ground floor, along with a plain cornice and a coping to the parapet. Doorways are located on the return and outer sides, with the left-hand doorway rendered and modernised, while the right-hand entrance leads through a single-storey porch attached to No.2. The central doorways have panelled jambs within raised surrounds, plate-glass overlights, and six-panel doors. The wings have paired windows on the ground and first floors with pilaster jambs and raised aprons, as well as first-floor cornices. The inner ground-floor windows have architraves, and the wider first-floor windows are located on the wings. Second-floor paired windows have incised surrounds. The windows are plate-glass sashes, with 4/4 panes on the first floor and 2/4 panes on the second. Dormers are modern additions. First-floor balconies have cast-iron brackets and bowed railings, though these are missing from No.4. The interior includes an entrance hall featuring a semicircular arch with scrolled corbels, leading to a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and a curtail. Further interior details include guilloche cornices and six-panel doors. Group value stems from contributing to the architectural character of the Westbourne Place area.