Description

ST 5675 BRISTOL DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park
(East side)
901-1/31/1783
No 17 and attached front
garden walls and piers

II

House, now flats. c1890. Possibly H. Dare Bryan. Snecked lias with limestone dressings, no chimneys and a tile roof Double-depth plan. Eclectic late Victorian style, with Queen Anne influences, 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range.
An asymmetrical front turns the corner to the right, has a projecting left-hand wing and a right- hand hexagonal corner turret; in between are paired, open semicircular-arched entrances with a central Doric column, beneath an entablature with triglyphs and circles, and 2-leaf recessed doorways with half-glazed door, above is a 3-light stained-glass stair light. Ground-floor casements with glazing bars above the transom; first-floor 6/1-pane sashes in the turret.
The wing has 3-light windows, with mullions and transoms on the ground floor with decorative panels either side on th first floor, and with sashes to the attic beneath an ashlar shaped gable with finials. The windows in the turret have pediments to the ground floor, decorated panels to the second, and between the attic windows are female half-figures supporting the eaves,
The right return has a projecting gable with canted ground-floor balustraded bay, first-floor windows as the left end, and paired second-floor sashes beneath a carved lintel with a fluted radiating stone fan, corner finials and a banded top to the gable.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having had the stair removed in the flat conversion.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers with obelisk finials to No 17. Shares several decorative features with Bryan's Downleaze houses to the left. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: ST5662775207

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571258

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair