Details
BRISTOL
ST5673NE THE PROMENADE, Clifton
901-1/1/1075 (East side)
08/01/59 Promenade House and attached
basement area railings and walls
GV II*
Formerly known as: Fanum House THE PROMENADE Clifton Down.
Formerly known as: Sundon House THE PROMENADE Clifton.
House, now office. c1840. Possibly by Charles Dyer. Limestone
ashlar, rendered sides and rear, lateral and ridge stacks and
slate hipped and cross-gabled roof. Double-depth plan.
Neoclassical style.
2 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical
front has clasping giant pilasters to an entablature, and
parapet with a thin cornice; a wide, central 3-light bow
extends up to a full attic storey lit by a glazed drum, with
giant Corinthian pilasters to dentilled entablature, and
pilasters to the attic; plinth and first-floor string.
Architraves to the windows and central ground-floor French
window, with console pediments to the outer windows on the
ground floor.
A symmetrical right-hand return has giant pilasters flanking a
central porch, frieze between the outer pilasters, and a
central, gabled attic storey flanked by lateral stacks.
The porch has distyle-in-antis Ionic 3/4 columns to an
entablature, and panelled parapet with balustraded centre;
moulded semicircular-arched doorway has a plate-glass fanlight
and C20 door. Flanking ground-floor and central first-floor
windows have console pediments, outer first-floor windows
blind, and a tripartite attic window with 2/4-pane sash.
The rear elevation is similar to the right side, with the
middle set back, an entablature and parapet, and central attic
gable. A wide 3-light canted bay projects across the middle,
with central French window and flanking 6/9-pane sashes;
ground-floor windows have console cornices, pediment to the
central first-floor window, and semicircular-arched tripartite
attic window.
The left return in 3 sections, the left-hand one projecting,
with clasping pilasters, raised central attic storey, and
blind windows over lateral stacks.
INTERIOR: largely altered late C20: a round entrance lobby
with niches flanking the door, semicircular eared and keyed
arch to a central stair well, now containing a lift and C20
stair. Good Greek Revival-style ceiling mouldings to front and
left-hand rear rooms, marble fire surround to front right-hand
room with acanthus capitals, 4-panel doors and panelled
shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached low curved walls to entrance,
cast-iron lattice railings to wide basement areas, and curved
Pennant steps from the front doorway.
A fine composition with facades to both sides of the corner.
Part of a remarkable group of houses including Taylor Maxwell
House (qv), Engineer's House (qv) and Trafalgar House (qv)
extending NW from Litfield House, Litfield Place (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 268; Mowl T: To Build The Second
City: Bristol: 1991-: 162).
Listing NGR: ST5659773528
