St Michael'S Terrace And Attached Railings And Piers

St Michael's Terrace is a terrace of five houses built around 1820, located on St Michael's Hill in Bristol. The houses are constructed of stucco with limestone dressings and feature party wall stacks and a double-pile roof, presenting a late Georgian style. Each house has three storeys and a basement, with a two-window range. The façade is enhanced by pilasters, with the inner ones adorned with broad reeds in an oval panel, leading up to a cornice and parapet. The left-hand doorways are framed by moulded architraves and shallow Greek Revival pediments that extend beyond the architrave, with three-pane overlights and six-panel doors. The windows are narrow six-over-six pane sashes, which are taller on the first floor.

Inside, the entrance hall features an unusual bowed internal wall that enlarges the front room, along with a central lateral dogleg stair that has stick balusters and a ramped and wreathed rail topped with a conical lantern. The cornices are more elaborate on the first floor, and there are six-panel doors and panelled shutters throughout. The fluted fireplaces include roundels, and there is an internal basement window with very fine lead glazing bars.

The terrace is complemented by attached wrought-iron front area railings and gates, which are supported by rusticated, capped piers at each end.