Chatford And Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls And Piers Penavon And Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls And Piers

Penavon and Chatford are a pair of attached houses built around 1845, located on The Promenade in Clifton, Bristol. They are constructed from limestone ashlar with rendered sides, featuring lateral and ridge stacks and a hipped roof covered with interlocking tiles. The houses are designed in a Neoclassical style, each having three storeys and a basement, with a three-window range.

Originally, the front was symmetrical, showcasing a rusticated ground floor with end sections that are set back. Above the ground floor, there are rusticated quoins leading to a panelled sill band on the second floor, and the eaves are bracketed and overhanging. The entrances are located in the returns; on the right, there is a plain open porch with pilasters supporting an entablature and parapet, while on the left, there is an open porch with fluted Ionic columns between pilasters, leading to a two-leaf six-panel door.

The ground floors of the end sections are level with the middle section. The right end features fluted attached Ionic columns set between broad pilasters supporting an entablature, while the left end has pilasters leading to a moulded entablature and cornice, with an eared and shouldered architrave framing paired windows and a mullion pilaster. The ground-floor windows have recessed architraves, with eared and shouldered designs above, and cornices on the outer first-floor windows. The first-floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes, while the second-floor windows are 6-pane casements. There are two first-floor stone balconies on the middle section, supported by cast-iron brackets and adorned with decorative bowed cast-iron railings.

The houses have attached cast-iron lattice railings that enclose wide front basement areas, along with front garden walls and two pairs of banded piers topped with cornices and caps. It is suggested that the entrances may have originally been in the end sections and were moved to the current locations in the mid-19th century. These houses are part of a distinguished group of ashlar villas that extend north from Litfield House on Litfield Place.