Description

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park
901-1/31/1790 (South East side)
Nos.28 AND 30
and attached piers and front garden
walls

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Dated 1896. By Henry Dare Bryan.
Snecked limestone rubble and dressings, tile-hung second
floor, brick ridge and diagonally-set gable stacks and tile
hip and gable roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3
storeys; 2-window range.
A symmetrical pair with the entrances in the sides, projecting
outer gables, and stone-framed ground- and first-floor
windows. Carved doorcases have winged cupid corbels to fluted
half pilasters, 3 Tudor-arched overlights and a dentil
cornice, and an elliptical-arched battened 2-leaf door.
Ground-floor mullion and transom windows, first-floor windows
have plate-glass casements with glazing bars above the
transoms, and second-floor timber windows project slightly on
small brackets.
The gables have 2-storey canted bays with tiled panels and
2-light ground- and first-floor windows below the overhanging
tile-hung gable, which has 3-light windows and a jettied
half-timbered apex. Between the gables the ground floor is
flush with the outer gables with a tiled lean-to roof and
3-light windows, 2-light first-floor windows and 3-light eaves
dormers with half-timbered gables.
The rear elevation is flat with semicircular-arched stair
lights and a single-storey service block.
INTERIOR: hall screen with stained-glass door and side
windows, a black and white tiled hall, elliptical arch to a
dogleg stair with turned balusters and large turned newels,
5-panel doors, cornices and fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls and
piers with domed caps. Strongly influencd by Norman Shaw's
Bedford Park, 1881.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 396).

Listing NGR: ST5655275117

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569476

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