Commonwealth House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Office.
Commonwealth House
- WRENN ID
- inner-iron-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRISTOL
ST5773NE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/3/1112 (West side) 04/03/77 Nos.12 AND 14 Commonwealth House (Formerly Listed as: WHITELADIES ROAD (West side) Nos.12 AND 14)
GV II
Attached pair of houses, now offices. c1850. Limestone ashlar with lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow wings and side doorways, a banded ground floor to a moulded plat band, paired upper pilasters with capitals to a frieze, dentil cornice and parapet. The wings have plain ground-floor windows, and bracketed pediment and sill blocks on the first floor; paired ground-floor middle windows with projecting jambs on moulded blocks, a similar pair of jambs to the party wall, all to consoles beneath a balcony with bowed cast-iron railings between the wings. Tripartite first-floor windows with 8/8-pane margin pane sashes, and plain second-floor windows; 6/6-pane sashes. The ends have porches with distyle-in-antis acanthus columns to an entablature, and a semicircular-arched recess above containing a stair light; doorways with side windows and 6-panel doors. INTERIOR: entrance stair halls, stone dogleg winder stairs with cast-iron balusters and a wreathed rail, bracketed cornices and 6-panel doors.
Listing NGR: ST5777773567
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