1-7, Belgrave Place

A terrace of seven houses at 1-7 Belgrave Place, Clifton, Bristol, built between 1849 and 1850. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and a double-pile roof covered in pantiles and slate. They follow a double-depth plan and are designed in an Italianate style. Each house has three storeys and a basement, with a two-window arrangement. The terrace is composed, with the ends projecting slightly, having full front and rear elevations. The front elevation features a moulded plat band, cornice, and moulded parapet coping, along with coped party walls. The right-hand doorways are keyed with semicircular arches, plate-glass fanlights, and two-panel doors. Ground-floor windows are recessed, as are the semicircular-arched first-floor windows, which have stone balconies with elaborate cast-iron railings. Attic windows have raised surrounds, sill blocks, and segmental pediments over the cornice. The end elevations are symmetrical, featuring full-height pedimented porches with segmental-arched doorways and windows consistent with the front elevation, with blind windows to the left side and upper floors. The garden front displays quoins either side of the party walls, large ground-floor windows with 6/6-pane sashes, Venetian first-floor windows with stone balconies, and paired second-floor windows, originally with panelled parapets topped with pediments. The interior of No.3 features a lobby with a basement staircase having stick balusters, a hall with a dogleg staircase with turned balusters and curtail, principal first-floor rooms with Greek Revival cornices and fireplaces, a basement range fireplace, panelled shutters, and four-panel doors. This is an unusual terrace, distinguished by its four decorated ashlar elevations.