Numbers 18 And 20 Including Part Of Number 22

BRISTOL

ST5673SE THE MALL, Clifton 901-1/7/1060 (North East side) 08/01/59 Nos.18 AND 20 including part of No.22 (Formerly Listed as: THE MALL (East side) Nos.18, 20 AND 24-28 (Even))

GV II

Part of assembly rooms, now pair of attached houses and shops. 1806-9. By Francis Greenway. Interior by Joseph Kay. Altered 1860 by JH Hirst. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 8-window range. 1860 ashlar shop fronts project beneath plain 1809 upper floors with 1:2:2:3 windows; the second and fourth sections are broken forward, a shallow bow to the latter, with a thin cornice to the left and a deeper one to the bow. 2 matching shop fronts have left-hand doorways in shallow recesses with pilasters and semicircular arches with tall keys, slate spandrels and doors set back, that to No.18 with paired 6-panel doors beneath two 6/6-pane sashes. Right-hand shallow canted bays have slender cast-iron columns with small foliate capitals to 3 moulded semicircular arches with elaborate carved keys and spandrels with flowers, and plate-glass windows; dentil cornice and parapet with pierced sections over the windows of small semicircles. The bow has 2/2-pane sashes, 6/6-pane sashes to the left, and 3/3-pane second-floor sashes. Rear elevation has late C19 first-floor window with stained glass leaded lights. INTERIOR: No.20 has an arcade of 4 semicircular arches with columns as the front, cornice all round and a coved ceiling. No.18 has a deep balcony across rear of ground floor with a wrought-iron railing. Part of the first floor is included in No.22, The Clifton Club (qv). Originally the right-hand wing of the Assembly Rooms, consisting of a pair of houses with rusticated basements as No.22 (qv), and doorways in the recessed sections. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 218; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 132).

Listing NGR: ST5696173082