NUMBERS 26 AND 27 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES

NUMBERS 26 AND 27 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 26 AND 27, CANYNGE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202046
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 26 AND 27 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 26 AND 27 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 26 AND 27, CANYNGE SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202046
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 26 AND 27 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 26 AND 27 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 26 AND 27, CANYNGE SQUARE

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:: NUMBERS 26 AND 27 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 26 AND 27, 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 56866 73625

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673NE CANYNGE SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/1/724 (North West side) 04/03/77 Nos.26 AND 27 and attached front basement area railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: CANYNGE SQUARE Nos.26-33 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Late 1840s. By Charles Underwood, completed by W Gingell. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and slate and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow projecting wings, deep cornice and parapet, with single-storey outer porches to a deep moulded band across the wings and linking with No.28 (qv). Segmental-arched doorways with raised surrounds, plate-glass overlights and 2-panel doors. Raised window surrounds with sill blocks and small ears, tripartite inner ground-floor windows, to 4/4-pane sashes, plate-glass on the first floor and 2/2-pane sashes with margin panes to the second floor. Rear elevation has a 4-window range, of first-floor semicircular-arched windows with raised, keyed surrounds, tripartite first-floor windows with 2/2-pane sashes, with a cast-iron balcony with diagonal railings and Vitruvian scroll; upper windows have raised, eared surrounds and 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area spear-headed cast-iron railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: Gingell completed the work after the original speculators went bankrupt. Forms part of a quasi-terrace of 4 semi-detached pairs, intermediate between the composed terrace of Nos 8-25 (qv), and the separate pairs along the W side of the square, all by Underwood. (Pollock A: Canynge Square: Bristol: 1986-).

Listing NGR: ST5686673625

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Sources

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Pollack, A, Canynge Square, (1986)

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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.