Numbers 8 to 25 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls and Piers
NUMBERS 8 TO 25 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 8-25, CANYNGE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202044
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 8 to 25 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 8 TO 25 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 8-25, CANYNGE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202044
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 8 to 25 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 8 TO 25 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 8-25, CANYNGE SQUARE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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 8 TO 25 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 8-25, CANYNGE 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 56890 73594
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673NE CANYNGE SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/1/723 (North East side) 04/03/77 Nos.8-25 (Consecutive) and attached front basement area railings, garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: CANYNGE SQUARE Nos.8-25 (Consecutive))
GV II
Terrace of 18 houses. c1845. By Charles Underwood. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and pantile double-pile roof, mansard to No.8. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 1-window range, Nos 15-18 have an attic storey. A composed terrace with 3-house end sections and 4-house centre section broken forward of lower intermediate sections; a banded ground floor to a moulded band, articulated above by pilasters to a wide frieze band, with bracketed cornice to projected sections, and moulded coping in between. Right-hand doorways, left-hand to Nos 23 & 24, have recessed jambs and rectangular overlights with margin panes; No.25 has the entrance in the coped left return, with a raised surround and cornice to a semicircular-arched doorway with a 3-pane fanlight and 2-pane door; central, 1-window range. Ground-floor windows in plain recesses; the end sections have upper windows set in semicircular-arched recesses, with first-floor raised cornices and plain pediments, to 8/8-pane sashes; second-floor windows originally with moulded cills extended each side, to 3/3-pane sashes; No.24 has French casements. Intermediate sections have architraves to upper windows, and second-floor sill bands. Central section has architraves, raised cornices to the first floor, second-floor sill band, and attic storey with pilaster and frieze bands and 3/3-pane sashes. First-floor balconies have cast-iron railings and brackets, except No.8, which has a plain pediment to the ground-floor window. INTERIOR: entrance hall with modillion cornice, divided by a semicircular arch from a central lateral dogleg stair with stick balusters, curtail and wreathed rail, cornices, panelled shutters and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed basement area railings, front garden walls and spear-headed railings, and round-topped ashlar gate piers with oval panels; No.25 has a railed, flagged entrance area. Intermediate in mid C19 house development between the plain, late Georgian terrace of Nos 1-6 on the S side (qv), the quasi-terrace of linked pairs on the N side of the square, and the separate pairs opposite on the W side, all by Underwood. (Pollack A: Canynge Square: Bristol: 1986-).
Listing NGR: ST5689073594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379076
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pollack, A, Canynge Square, (1986)
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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