Number 27 And 29 And Attached Walls And Piers

A pair of attached houses, built around 1850 in Bristol, constructed of limestone ashlar with ashlar details and a pantile hipped roof. The houses have a double-depth plan and are designed in an Italianate style. They are two storeys high with an attic and basement, and each has a three-window front. The symmetrical design features projecting outer wings, entrance porches on the returns, a banded ground floor, a plat band, paired upper pilasters to a frieze and cornice, and an attic storey with pilasters to corner, pedimented blocks and a parapet. The porch to number 27 faces the road and has a canopy supported by wrought-iron brackets, a three-panel door with a stained-glass overlight. The porch to number 29 has a 20th-century doorway with a circular glazed panel. Basement windows are segmental-arched, while the first-floor windows are tripartite with cornices and balustrades. Above these are semicircular-arched windows with console cornices, attic windows with scrolled shoulders and carved pediments. A projecting ground floor between the wings has paired tripartite windows—stone on the right with a balustrade, and timber on the left. Four first-floor windows have architraves and raised cornices, and the attic has triple semicircular-arched panels and raised paired windows with plate-glass sashes. The windows are mostly 2/2-pane sashes with margin bars. The lateral stacks have paired semicircular-arched panels and cornices. The rear elevation is also in ashlar with segmental-arched stair windows; stained glass is present in the stair window of number 27. A late 19th-century conservatory has a central glazed gable with bargeboards. The interior features a lobby divided by an elliptical arch leading to a large, tiled stair hall with an open dogleg stair with cast-iron balusters, a curtail, and a modillion cornice. There are also fine cornices, architraves to doorways with consoles and cornices, six-panel doors, panelled shutters, and fireplaces with Ionic columns. Attached squared rubble walls extend along the road for approximately 40 metres with panelled limestone piers. The design is comparable to numerous listed houses by George Gay and Charles Underwood in Tyndall's Park and Clifton.