This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
BRISTOL
ST5674 IVYWELL ROAD, Sneyd Park 901-1/34/1805 (North East side) 04/03/77 Nos.3 AND 4 and attached front garden walls, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: IVYWELL ROAD Nos.3 AND 4)
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1860. Pennant ashlar with limestone dressings, ashlar ridge and gable stacks and a slate cross-gabled valley roof. Irregular double-depth plan. Gothic Revival style. 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. A picturesque composition has varied fenestration, mostly with ogee-headed casements, and roofline. No.3 to the right has a projecting gable with a right-hand crenellated tower, with steps and balustrade up to a 2-centre arched doorway with a plain C20 door; above the door is a narrow canted oriel with ogee-headed lights and a stone roof, and a second-storey 3-light mullion and transom window; to the left is a canted 9-light timber oriel with a swept, tiled roof, a 3-light mullion and transom window on the first floor and plain mullion second-floor window. No.4 has a similar doorway in the 2-storey porch below the left end gable; on the front is a wide 2-storey bay with 8-light mullion and transom windows, linked to the front gable of No.3 by a curved continuation of the bay, and with a dormer above. The left rear gable has an octagonal turret; right end has a crenellated porch and railed first-floor parapet. Rear 2-storey oriel. Linked ranges of octagonal stacks with cornices to the rear end gables and front ridge. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden wall has banded rustication and piers with weathered caps, and No.4 has cast-iron spear-headed gates. An exceptionally well-designed and massed composition, the architect unknown but clearly influenced by Ecclesiological architecture of the period. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 287).
Listing NGR: ST5631174978
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1727 IOE Records taken by Joy Roddy; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mrs Joy Roddy. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Roddy, Joy
Rights Holder: Roddy, Joy
Ashlar, Cast Iron, Limestone, Pennant Stone, Slate, Tile, Victorian House, Monument (By Form), Domestic, Dwelling, Balustrade, Gardens Parks And Urban Spaces, Gate, Unassigned, Garden Wall, Wall, Barrier, Column, Building Component, Building, Steps, Transport, Pedestrian Transport Site
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