59-65, STOKES CROFT

This is a terrace of four houses located on Stokes Croft in Bristol, originally dating from around 1710, with some rebuilding occurring around 1985. The buildings are a mix of brick and stucco with limestone dressings and a pantile hip roof. They are arranged with a double-depth plan, indicative of the Early Georgian style. Each house has two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a two-window front. Numbers 59 and 61 are facsimiles of brick construction, while numbers 63 and 65 are stucco-faced. The facades feature rusticated pilaster strips extending to a moulded coping and parapet, along with plat bands marking the first and second floors. The doorway to number 63 is on the right, while the others are on the left, each with thin brackets supporting canopies, six-panel doors, and rectangular overlights. The ground floors have canted bays, with 8/8-pane sashes flanked by 4/4-pane sashes at numbers 59 and 65; numbers 61 and 63 have projecting shop fronts. Numbers 59 and 61 feature sashes with cambered heads and scribed lintels; number 63 has a 19th-century shop front, canted first and second-story bays with 6/6-paned sashes, and a dormer window with a 3/3-pane sash. Number 65 has cambered heads with five stepped voussoirs over 20th-century glazing. The rear of numbers 63 and 65 have 6/6-pane sashes set in flush boxes. Inside number 63, a vaulted cellar is present, along with a fully-panelled shop with 20th-century fittings, Pennant-flagged flooring in the hall and rear ground floor, and a 4/4-pane internal sash window. The panelled hall boasts a semicircular arch with a panelled soffit, a framed newel winder staircase with a wide curtail, column-on-vase balusters, square newels, and a toadback rail, and a narrow attic staircase. Marble fireplaces with corner roundels, two-panel doors, roughly chamfered purlins, and a glass panel set into the floor of the second-floor landing are also notable features. Number 65 includes a vaulted rear cellar, marble fireplaces with cast-iron baskets and cornices, and fully-panelled ground-floor rooms. Exterior features include Pennant steps leading up to numbers 63 and 65, which display fire insurance plaques inscribed with "UNION 1714." Number 65 was specifically listed on October 17, 1974.