27 And 29, Whitladies Road

BRISTOL

ST5773NE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/3/1116 (East side) Nos.27 AND 29

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now offices. 1862. By William Coates. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and a concrete tile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. Each of 3 storeys; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has clasping giant pilasters, raised party wall, plat band and frieze, forming recessed panels for the fenestration; banded ground floor. Outer entrance blocks set back, with single-storey porches with impost bands to semicircular-arched doorways, with panels above and 6-panel doors. Arcades of 3 semicircular-arched ground- and first-floor windows have impost bands and incised hoods, and paired second-floor windows, above a band of incised circles, with vertical incised panels to the first and second floors flanking the windows with Greek key decoration. Plate-glass sashes. INTERIOR: central lateral dogleg stairs with cast-iron balusters, modillion cornices and 6-panel doors. Nos 21-33 (qv) are linked into a single office. A plain but handsome pair forming a group with the Neoclassical and Italianate villas of Whiteladies Road.

Listing NGR: ST5783973675