Royal Colonnade

The Royal Colonnade is a terrace of four houses, now offices, dating from approximately 1826. It was possibly designed by RS Pope. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks, and has a hidden roof. It follows a double-depth plan. The terrace is in a Neoclassical style and comprises three storeys and a basement, with a three-window range to each house. The design incorporates projecting end houses linked by a colonnade of Ionic columns, spaced 1:2:2:1 to each house, and leading to an entablature and a balustrade of square balusters and decorative panels featuring wreaths. The upper floors feature pilasters rising from a plat band to a frieze, cornice, and parapet. The end doorways have pilasters and entablatures topped with cornices, and are surmounted by semicircular arches. The paired central doorways have semicircular-arched architraves, leading to fanlights and six-panel doors. Plain windows are located behind the colonnade on the ground floor, while other windows have architraves. Console cornices adorn the first-floor windows behind the colonnade. Windows are predominantly 8/8-pane sashes, with 4/8-pane windows on the second floor. The interior includes an entrance hall with an elliptical arch leading to a central stair hall. This hall contains a dogleg winder stair with stick balusters and a banded rail, positioned within a bowed party wall and lit by an oval lantern. A keyed fire surround is located in the basement. Other interior features incorporate marble fireplaces, egg-and-dart mouldings, and architraves with roundels to six-panel doors. The Royal Colonnade is thought to be Bristol's first Neoclassical terrace, and its design elements, such as the irregular colonnade and wreath motif, suggest the involvement of RS Pope.