Clifton High School (3 and 4 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings and Wall) is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. School. 3 related planning applications.

Clifton High School (3 and 4 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings and Wall)

WRENN ID
kindled-hammer-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
School
Address
Clifton High School (3 and 4 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings and Wall), BS8 3JD
OS grid reference
ST 570 734
Coordinates
51.45835, -2.61942
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Clifton High School, located at 3 and 4 Clifton Park, consists of a pair of attached houses that were converted into a school around 1850, possibly designed by Charles Underwood. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar and features lateral and party wall stacks, although the roof is not visible. It is designed in a Neoclassical style with a double-depth plan, comprising two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a symmetrical front that includes shallow wings.

The ground floor is banded, leading to a central panel and a plat band, with paired corner and central pilasters supporting a Doric entablature adorned with triglyphs and a cornice that is interrupted by attic windows and pilasters. The doorways at each end have porches; No. 3 features banded corners and a balustrade, along with a semicircular-arched doorway and overlights, while No. 4 has paired pilasters and a balustrade leading to recessed doors with two-leaf half-glazed doors. The wings contain bays with tripartite windows and balustrades, architraves to 20th-century ground floor casements, and two-over-two pane sash windows. The rear of the doorways also has tripartite windows.

Inside, No. 3 has a tiled hall with an open-well stair that is screened by semicircular arches, featuring cast-iron balusters, a curtail, and a smooth soffit. No. 4 has a dogleg stair. The front rooms have a decorative plaster scheme and are linked by a segmental arch with folding doors. There are marble fireplaces, one lined with pewter and the other supported by detached columns, along with six-panel doors and panelled shutters.

The property also includes subsidiary features such as cast-iron railings and gates, as well as piers for the basement areas and the front garden wall.

Local climate

Clifton High School (3 and 4 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings and Wall) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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