Numbers 1 And 3 And Attached Verandahs, Front Walls And Piers

A pair of attached houses dating from the early to mid-19th century, located on Richmond Hill Avenue, Clifton, Bristol. The houses are rendered with limestone dressings, a brick party wall with stacks and a slate hipped roof. They are designed with a double-depth plan and are in a Neoclassical style.

Each house is three storeys high with a basement, and features a three-window front. The front is symmetrical, with one-window recessed entrance blocks at each end, and a pedimented four-window centre section. Giant pilasters rise to a moulded coping and low parapet, ramping up over the pilasters. The side blocks have 20th-century doorways with margin lights. Behind these are inner, semicircular-arched doorways with convex reeded architraves, imposts and keys, and semicircular-arched blind windows. Number 3 has a late-19th century canted two-storey bay to the left of a keyed, semicircular-arched doorway. Plate-glass windows are on the ground floor, first-floor French windows lead to timber balconies with wrought-iron pointed-arched railings incorporating quatrefoils, and the second floor has six-over-six pane sash windows.

Inside, the entrance stair hall features a good open-well staircase with stick balusters, column newels and a ramped rail, lit from above by a round lantern. The interior also includes six-panel doors and panelled shutters.

Attached to the front are wrought-iron tented verandahs with pointed-arched rails, flanking the porch to Number 1, along with a decorative lighting bracket. Front garden walls and rusticated piers with ball finials are also present.