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ST MARK'S ROAD
656-1/41/1580 (North side) Nos.32 AND 33
05/08/75 GV II Pair of large semi-detached houses. c1860.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs with lead dressings, some of slates to No.32 shaped.
EXTERIOR: Compact square houses, set on a steeply sloping site with an additional full height storey to rear. Two storeys, attic and lower ground floor. Each house two windows wide. All windows are plain plate glass sashes, with dormers set in the very steeply pitched mansard roof slope, above one light over the entrance, and smaller light to centre, large sash with moulded cornice on consoles to ground floor, and large sash to basement in narrow enclosed area. Prominent stone porches on outer sides containing four-panel doors in moulded surrounds, carried on short square fluted columns with foliate capitals, on high pedestals incorporated in boundary wall. Porch entablature has shouldered architrave, and moulded cornice crowned with decorative cast iron cresting. Small arched light, with coloured glass, adjacent to porch. Left return has three dormers, those to front having cast iron crestings, with eaves stack towards rear, and single sash at ground floor level, return to No.33 similar, with two sashes at ground level, but without cresting. Rear has two dormers to each house, with cresting to No.32, above two plain sashes, with single and tripartite sash with cornices at ground floor, but not at lower ground level. No.33 has small stone balcony with pierced balustrade to first floor main sash.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Across street front, stepped at party division, open pierced stone balustrade on plinth wall, carried down as retaining wall to basement areas, with square pier with incised front panel and rounded top, each end and at centre. Wall returns at right hand end, to connect with high (approx 3m) retaining wall at rear, to Claverton Street, squared rubble to deep coping and carrying plain spiked railings across full width of site. At each end plank door giving to flight of stone steps. Listing NGR: ST7522864228
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