Number 51 And Attached Basement Area Wall

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ST5972 901-1/42/1681

BRISTOL Redcliff REDCLIFF HILL (East side) No.51 and attached basement area wall

(Formerly Listed as: REDCLIFF HILL (East side) No.51)

04/03/77

GV II

Includes: No.11 COLSTON PARADE Redcliff.

House, now offices. c1772. Brick and stucco with limestone dressings, left-hand brick lateral stack and pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style.

Three storeys and basement; three-window range. Right-hand late C18 doorway with brackets to a pediment, stepped keys to a semicircular arch, fanlight and six-panel door; rubbed brick flat arches to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes on the second floor.

The stuccoed left return is a parapeted symmetrical elevation, with blind right-hand windows beneath the lateral stack, modelled as Nos 1-5 Colston Parade (qv): rusticated ground floor to a plat band, with incised voussoirs, a mid C18 central doorway has a Gibbs surround, key and pediment to a fanlight and six-panel door; flat arches to 6/6-pane sashes.

INTERIOR not inspected, but noted as having a dogleg stair and panelled shutters.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached, ramped front basement area wall with a rounded coping curves up to the doorway, with a boot scraper; vaulted cellar below pavement.

(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 201).

Listing NGR: ST5908972236