91, Cumberland Road

BRISTOL

ST5872 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Floating Harbour 901-1/42/1291 (North side) 08/08/75 No.91

GV II

House, now offices. c1840. Stucco with limestone dressings, octagonal ashlar lateral stacks and a pantile double-pile gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Picturesque Gothic style. A symmetrical front with 2 large gables, and an open porch with a 4-centre arch, crenellated parapet with a raised centre and a shield, octagonal clasping buttresses with caps and pointed side windows. Inner 4-centre doorway has a panelled 2-leaf door and flanking niches with thin columns and a 4-centred head. Attached bays each side with coved eaves to a weathered roof, have paired 6/6-pane sashes with Gothic glazing bars. First-floor oriels have small sashes like those on the ground floor, and weathered tops; between and in the gables are C20 casements with label moulds. Scalloped barge-boards, and 2 ranges of octagonal stacks to each side. To the back is a large, central, pointed stair window. INTERIOR: a central hall with foliate cornice, a rear dogleg stair with turned balusters and a curtail, and lateral passages divided by pointed arches with panelled soffits.

Listing NGR: ST5800472199