Numbers 5 To 8 And Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers And Gates

Numbers 5 to 8 form a terrace of four houses built around 1813, located on the south side of Richmond Hill, Clifton, Bristol. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks, and the roof is not visible. They are arranged with a double-depth plan and are in a Neoclassical style.

Each house is two storeys high with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The overall design is composed, with the end houses set back, and the spaces between articulated with giant pilasters topped by a moulded coping. The pilaster between numbers 5 and 6 has wide flutes. A continuous parapet rises to the level of the party walls. The ground floor is rusticated, with bands marking each floor, and impost bands define the first and second floors. Number 5 has steps leading to a semicircular arched doorway with impost blocks, a key stone, a plate-glass fanlight, and a six-panel door. An elliptical arched basement door is located below. Number 6 features a right-hand doorway with a metal fanlight under a tented porch. Numbers 7 and 8 have basement doorways with large, pedimented lintels supported by brackets, and French windows with margin lights. Number 8 also has steps to a flat-headed doorway with a glazed door, beneath a 20th-century conservatory. The middle windows are arranged as 2:3:3:2, with large incised keys to the ground floor and upper windows set in semicircular arched recesses. Windows have 6/6 panes on the first floor, and 3/6 panes on the second floor. The end houses have semicircular arched windows, with paired windows on the first floor of number 8. The interior of the houses has not been inspected.

Attached to the front of the terrace are rubble garden walls with rusticated piers and wrought-iron two-leaf gates. Small variations in the ground-floor voussoirs and in the pilasters suggest the terrace was not completed in its original planned form.