Numbers 1 To 8 And Attached Basement And Front Area Railings

Numbers 1 to 8 Rodney Place, Clifton Down Road, Bristol, together with the attached basement and front area railings, is a terrace of nine houses built between 1782 and 1785. The design is likely by William Paty. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar, with party wall stacks and pantile and slate mansard roofs. They are in a Late Georgian style. Each house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a five-window front.

The terrace is divided by pilasters to a cornice and parapet, with plat and first-floor sill bands. The ground floor of each house has a rusticated three-window range, and a plain two-window range containing the doorways, alternating on either side. These doorways feature Doric columns, triglyphs to the pediments, fanlights, and six-panel doors. The windows are largely 6/6-pane sashes, with 3/3-panes to the second floor, and varied dormers are present.

Number 1 has a late 19th-century doorway in the right return, featuring large volute consoles to a modillion canopy, an overlight, and a two-panel door, with a later extension behind. Number 3 has wrought-iron basket balconies to the first-floor. Number 4 includes a late 19th-century single-storey porch with a semicircular-arched doorway, a right-hand stone oriel with plain transoms and mullions, and a raised mansard roof. Number 8 has a narrow mid-19th-century doorway with a console cornice and a left-hand tripartite ground-floor window.

The interior features a rear, central stone open dogleg staircase with stick and cast-iron balusters and a wreathed rail. There are winder attic stairs. Other interior features include panelled reveals to doors with six raised panels, panelled shutters, fireplaces, cornices, and dados.

The property is complemented by attached wrought-iron railings with urn finials to the basement areas, and to the raised, flagged front areas of numbers 6, 7, and 8. Numbers 1 to 5 are set back behind a curved drive. The terrace represents one of the first in Clifton after Boyce’s Buildings.