Numbers 1 To 12 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Garden Walls And Piers

A terrace of twelve houses built in 1826, located on The Polygon in Clifton, Bristol. The houses are rendered with limestone dressings, have party wall stacks, and a slate mansard half-hipped roof. They are of a double-depth plan and represent a late Georgian style. Each house is three storeys high with an attic and basement, and has a three-window front. The terrace is sharply convex, with pilasters rising to a cornice and parapet, which is ramped over the party walls. The right-hand doorways have narrow overlights and six-panel doors, with the upper four panels raised and corner details cut out, and the bottom pair reeded. There are six-pane sash windows and two dormers. First-floor timber balconies include iron brackets and wrought-iron railings with quatrefoils. The rear elevation has a cornice and a three-window range to number 12, with projecting one and two-storey service blocks, originally featuring semicircular arched windows.

Interior details of number 3 include an entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch from a dogleg staircase, featuring an uncut string, stick balusters, column newels, a ramped and banded rail. Front ground-floor rooms are linked by panelled double doors. The ground floor features a marble fire surround with reeded jambs, corner roundels, a hop grate to the back, and an arch-plate register grate to the front. The basement is flagged and has a cooking range and a dresser in the rear block. The doors are six-panel and have panelled shutters.

Attached to the front are brick garden walls with slim capped ashlar piers, some with cast-iron railings featuring anthemion finials. A pair of large entrance piers at the southern end are inscribed ‘POLYGON.’