Number 27 And 29 And Attached Walls And Piers

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ST5775 DURDHAM PARK, Redland 901-1/31/1705 (South West side) 04/03/77 Nos.27 AND 29 and attached walls and piers

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Pair of attached houses. c1850. Limestone ashlar with ashlar lateral and ridge and lateral stacks and pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A symmetrical pair has projecting outer wings, entrance porches in the returns, a banded ground floor to a plat band, paired upper pilasters to a frieze and cornice, attic storey with pilasters to corner pedimented blocks and parapet. Porches with pilasters, and steps with sinouous interlocking balustrade; that to No.27 faces the road, with a canopy on wrought-iron brackets, 3-panel door and stained-glass overlight, and to No.29 with a C20 doorway with a circular glazed panel. Outer bays have segmental-arched basement windows and tripartite first-floor windows with tripartite windows, cornice and balustrade. Tripartite semicircular-arched windows above have console cornices; attic windows with scrolled shoulders, and a carved pediment above. Between the wings is a projecting ground floor with paired tripartite windows, stone to the right with a balustrade and timber to the left. 4 first-floor windows have architraves and raised cornices; the attic has triple semicircular-arched panels to the left, and a raised parapet to 2 paired windows with plate-glass sashes to the right. 2/2-pane sashes with margin bars. Lateral stacks have paired semicircular-arched panels and cornices. Ashlar rear elevation has segmental-arched stair windows, with stained glass to No.27. Late C19 conservatory has a central glazed gable with barge-boards. INTERIOR: lobby divided by an elliptical arch to a large, tiled stair hall, with an open dogleg stair with cast-iron balusters and curtail and a modillion cornice; good cornices of fruit; architraves to doorways with consoles and cornices, 6-panel doors, and panelled shutters; fireplaces, with Ionic columns. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared rubble walls extend along the road for approx 40m, with panelled limestone piers. A similar design to numerous listed houses by George Gay and Charles Underwood in Tyndall's Park and Clifton.

Listing NGR: ST5739275179