TAYLOR MAXWELL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BALUSTRADE

TAYLOR MAXWELL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BALUSTRADE, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202632
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: TAYLOR MAXWELL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address:: TAYLOR MAXWELL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BALUSTRADE, THE PROMENADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202632
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: TAYLOR MAXWELL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BALUSTRADE
Statutory Address 1:: TAYLOR MAXWELL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BALUSTRADE, THE PROMENADE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TAYLOR MAXWELL HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BALUSTRADE, THE PROMENADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 56590 73561

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673SE THE PROMENADE, Clifton 901-1/1/1076 (East side) 08/01/59 Taylor Maxwell House and attached front balustrade (Formerly Listed as: THE PROMENADE, Clifton Down Crosfields House)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Avonside House THE PROMENADE Clifton Down. House, now office. 1839. By RS Pope. Limestone ashlar, rendered side and rear, lateral and ridge stacks, and slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has projecting 1-window wings with attached ground-floor Greek Doric columns set back between banded pilaster strips to an entablature, wide pilaster strips above, to a full-width heavy bracketed cornice, outer pediments with tall parapets and wreaths in the tympana, and a parapet with raised central sections. The centre is banded on the ground floor with a distyle-in-antis Doric entrance, the doorway set back with an impost band and C20 door, and a shallow right-hand bay with banded jambs. First-floor windows are set in recesses with Corinthian pilasters, the outer second-floor windows recessed with a plain mullion, the middle ones with battered raised surrounds. First-floor cantilevered stone balcony across the middle has cast-iron balustrade of wreaths. 6/6-pane sashes, mullion and transom casements first-floor outer windows. The left return in 2 sections separated by a gap, outer windows with banded ground-floor jambs, plain pilasters above to the cornice, and a central 2-storey panel above the ground floor with waterleaf moulding and anthemia in the corners. Rear elevation is a 5-window range with a central ground-floor bay articulated by fluted pilasters, a semicircular-arched second-floor stair window with a stone balcony, both pierced with rectangular holes with diagonal cast-iron railings; tall left-hand oriel on iron stanchions with tripartite window. INTERIOR: lobby to a rear central stair hall with an open dogleg stone stair with moulded cast-iron balusters, and a large fluted newel with a ball finial; left-hand central lateral dogleg service stair with uncut string, stick balusters and column newels; panelled reveals and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a central raised terrace across the front has attached battered balusters between the wings, dies to either end of a central stair flight, with plain urn finials. A well-detailed house making good use of the corner site. Part of a remarkable group including Promenade 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: ST5659073561

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Legacy System number:: 380701
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 268
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 162

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.