Clifton House

House with commercial premises, painted stucco with plain roughcast parapet. Four storeys, 2 bays, formerly with stucco cornice as on Brecknock House. Twelve-pane sash windows to upper floors, (the early C19 iron guards to 2nd floor windows mentioned in 1977 have gone). Full width C19 shop front with shop door in centre and house door to right under overall timber fascia and early C19 iron railing above. Fascia has scrolled brackets each end and raised roundels along lower moulding. Railing has anthemion motifs in frame of scrolls, and rosettes in top rail. Shopfront has 2 plate glass windows framing C20 recessed door with overlight. Panelled soffit, step with mosaic lettering 'Francis Chemist'. Six-panel door to house with rectangular overlight with radiating-bar fan tracery. Cast-iron lamp bracket attached to centre of first floor. Rear elevation visible from Crackwell Street has paired gable with rear of Brecknock House, indicative of a much earlier construction. Painted stucco 4 storeys and attic with railed terrace and steps leading down to a lower garden. Attic 8-pane window, 2 16-pane sash windows to third and second floors and 2 24-pane windows to first floor.

Late C19 chemist's shop fittings. Shallow shelves on left side wall with pilasters over panelled cupboards. Right side has drawers with names of chemicals and pilaster framing for shelves. Coved cornices on 3 sides. Rear wall has 3-bay feature with doorways left and right and broad centre with carved wood frame and glazed lettered panels 'James Pharmaceutical Chemist' under scrolled pediment with missing centre feature, probably a clock. Doors have thin piers, part-fluted with consoles and glazed lettered panels 'Natural mineral waters' to left and 'English and foreign pharmacy' to right.