143, 145 AND 147, ST MICHAELS HILL

A terrace of three houses built around 1840 on St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with a roof that is not visible. They are arranged with a double-depth plan and are designed in a Greek Revival style. Each house is three storeys high with a two-window facade, and the three houses together present a unified temple front with broad pilasters and an overall pediment and parapet. A single-storey entrance porch is located on the right-hand end, featuring a door with a battered architrave and a six-panel door. The left-hand and middle houses have 19th-century shop fronts with 20th-century glazing. The windows are predominantly 6/6-pane sashes, with a five-pane semicircular-arched window set within the tympanum. The rear of the right-hand return includes paired pilasters and a cornice above a full-height semicircular-arched recess, which contains a semicircular-arched stair window with 8/8-pane glazing. Number 147 has a two-storey bow window at the rear. Inside number 143 is a lateral dogleg winder stair with stick balusters, column newels, a ramped rail with a wreathed end, and a parquetry star pattern.