Lunsford House And Attached Garden Walls

BRISTOL

ST5873SW PARK ROW 901-1/10/162 (North side) 08/01/59 No.15 Lunsford House and attached garden walls (Formerly Listed as: PARK ROW (North side) No.15 Lunsford House)

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House, now office. 1722, altered c1750, restored c1990. Brick with tuck pointing and limestone dressings, central ridge and side gable stacks and pantile and Cornish slate hipped roof, half hipped to each side. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys and attic; 6-window range. A good symmetrical front with projecting mid C18 two-window centre, brick bands to the outer sections, and a cornice and moulded coping both ramped up to the centre. The outer sections have 2 windows and 1 in the attic, with rubbed brick flat arches. Centre has a wide, open elliptical arch to a bowed porch and 4-panel door; above is a Venetian window, and 5 stepped voussoirs to upper floors. 6/6-pane sashes, 3/6-pane attic sashes, in flush boxes to the middle and right side. Large central cruciform stack. Right return has a semicircular-arched stair window; and rear right-hand doorway with a canopy on brackets. Hipped dormers to sides and rear. INTERIOR: a fine and complete early C18 interior, ground- and first-floor rooms with raised panelling, shutters and 6-panel doors, and hall semicircular-arched doorways with fluted jambs and good carved keys; central stair hall with fine open-well stair, column-on-vase balusters, alternate ones twisted, column newels, and a moulded ramped rail, wainscot and good plaster ceiling; late Victorian fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble walls round garden. A fine late Baroque house with a good interior.

Listing NGR: ST5837573162