Numbers 22 To 28 And Attached Area Railings

Numbers 22 to 28 Portland Square is a terrace of seven houses built between 1789 and 1820 by Daniel Hague. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with brick stacks and a slate mansard roof. They have a double-depth plan with basements and attics. The architectural style is late Georgian, with a formal symmetrical composition where the middle and end houses project slightly. The ground floor is rusticated, with pilasters rising from the first-floor plat band to a modillion cornice and parapet. The centre house features pilasters with bases and acanthus capitals, a doorway with a fanlight in a rectangular overlight. The doorcases are central, with Ionic columns and modillion pediments, batswing fanlights, and six-panel doors. The ground-floor windows have rusticated voussoirs, and those above have plain voussoirs to 6/6-pane sash windows. The end gables have a large semicircular-arched doorway with a Gibbs surround, similar stair windows, and lunettes above the cornice, with stepped voussoirs to the openings on either side. Numbers 23 and 24 were completely rebuilt around 1973 as replicas to complete the terrace. The interior of No. 27 retains original features, including a central lateral stairwell lit by a conical lantern, an open-well stair with column and urn balusters, fluted Tuscan and Corinthian pilasters to hall arches, modillion cornices, and panelled shutters. The other houses were largely remodelled around 1980. Subsidiary features include spear railings to the basement areas. The corner pilaster of No. 28 is inscribed “PORTLAND SQUARE” and “CAVE STREET.” The building is considered part of Bristol’s "most complete and beautiful square.”