19 and 21, Cotham Road

A pair of attached houses dating to around 1840, located on Cotham Road, Bristol. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with rendered sides, and feature a concrete tiled hipped roof. They are designed with a double-depth plan and are built in the Italianate style.

The two-storey houses, with a basement and attic, have a symmetrical front elevation with projecting wings and ground-floor bays. The front features a moulded plinth, banded rustication on the basement and ground floor up to an entablature, paired first-floor pilasters, a bracketed cornice, and an attic storey with a moulded coping. Open porches with semicircular arches at either end provide access to six-panel doors. The bays have tripartite windows with guilloche jambs and mullions, containing 6/6-pane sashes with flanking 2/2-pane sashes, and are protected by a balustrade. Similar first-floor windows are also set behind console cornices. A stone verandah between the wings has wide openings between attached columns, semicircular-arched windows with margin bars, railings, and a full-width balustraded balcony. French windows provide access to the verandah. First-floor windows have shouldered architraves and 6/6-pane sashes. Attic windows break through the cornice. The ashlar basement includes incised voussoirs and cambered heads over 6/6-pane sashes. The rear elevation is similarly designed but with reduced decorative detail. The interior of the houses has not been inspected. Nos. 19-33 share a common plan and elevations, although there are variations in the detailed decoration.