Numbers 7 to 12 and Area Railings
NUMBERS 7 TO 12 AND AREA RAILINGS, 7-12, BRUNSWICK SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202027
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 7 to 12 and Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 7 TO 12 AND AREA RAILINGS, 7-12, BRUNSWICK SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202027
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 7 to 12 and Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 7 TO 12 AND AREA RAILINGS, 7-12, BRUNSWICK SQUARE
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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:
- NUMBERS 7 TO 12 AND AREA RAILINGS, 7-12, BRUNSWICK SQUARE
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 59295 73641
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973NW BRUNSWICK SQUARE, St Paul 901-1/6/1880 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.7-12 (Consecutive) and area railings
GV II
Terrace of 6 houses. 1784. Possibly by William Paty. Brick with limestone dressings, brick stacks and a pantile mansard roof. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, basement and attic; 18-window range. A formal composition with projecting 4-storey end blocks, first-floor plat band and modillion cornice; doorcases have console pediments over keyed semicircular arches with plate-glass fanlights, paired, in the middle, on Nos 9 & 10, to the outer sides of Nos 8 & 11, and in the side elevations of the end houses. Each house has 3 windows with 5 stepped voussoirs to sashes with margin bars, and 2 dormers, and the taller end houses have pilasters above the cornice between the brick-arched windows; end elevations have Gibbs surrounds to central, semicircular-arched doorways and windows. INTERIOR: most have been completely restored with the loss of most period details. Unrestored No.12 has a large hall with square, open-well stair with ramped rails and a modillion cornice. No.8, dogleg stair with curtail step, ramped rail, semicircular hall arch with fluted reveals and 6-panel shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings to open basement areas. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 208; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 53).
Listing NGR: ST5929573641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379029
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 208
Dening, C F W, The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol, (1923), 53
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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