68 AND 70, COLSTON STREET
68 AND 70, COLSTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187256
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 68 AND 70, COLSTON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 68 AND 70, COLSTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187256
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 68 AND 70, COLSTON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 68 AND 70, COLSTON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 68 AND 70, COLSTON STREET
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 58587 73234
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE COLSTON STREET 901-1/11/84 (East side) 02/04/73 Nos.68 AND 70
GV II
Pair of attached houses, now shops and offices. Late C17, refenestrated C18, C19 shop fronts. Rendered timber-frame with a central brick stack and pantile roof. Single rooms front and back with central inner stairs. Each of 2 storeys and attic, No.70 single storey and attic; 2-window range. A pair of steep gables to the street have shop fronts, that to No.68 extending across the party wall, beneath a jettied first floor, with boxed eaves. Shop fronts have central doorways between shallow bowed windows with glazing bars. First-floor canted oriels have a 10/10-pane sash to No.70 and casement with glazing bars to No.68, and 8/8-pane sashes in flush frames above. INTERIOR: No.70 has a central right-hand winder stair and chamfered lateral ceiling beams. A plan form typical of other mid C17 houses such as in King Street. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 18).
Listing NGR: ST5858773234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379352
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 18
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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