39-53, APSLEY ROAD

39-53, APSLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201958
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
39-53, APSLEY ROAD
Statutory Address:
39-53, APSLEY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201958
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
39-53, APSLEY ROAD
Statutory Address 1:
39-53, APSLEY ROAD

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
39-53, APSLEY ROAD

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 57351 74451

Details

BRISTOL

ST5774 APSLEY ROAD, Clifton 901-1/34/688 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.39-53 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 8 houses. c1840. Possibly by RS Pope. Limestone dressings, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A formal terrace has a right-hand pair with the upper floors set back behind an open arcade, possibly planned as the centre of a wider terrace. Pilasters to a band, cornice and coped attic storey. Banded ground floor has right-hand doorways with segmental heads, 3-light overlights and 4-panel doors. Tripartite ground-floor windows have 6/6-pane flanked by 2/2-pane sashes, 3 left-hand houses have canted ground-floor bays; architraves above, with first-floor console cornices and wrought-iron balconies, and smaller second-floor windows, with 6/6-pane sashes, and 3/3-pane attic sashes. The right-hand pair each a 3-window range with an arched first-floor arcade on square piers with wreaths to the entablature, and parapet; the right-hand door has a semicircular arch and 2-leaf door. Rear semicircular-arched stair lights. INTERIOR: party wall dogleg stairs with turned balusters, panelled shutters and doors. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 254).

Listing NGR: ST5735174451

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Legacy System number:
378842
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 254

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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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