The Sugar Loaf Public House
THE SUGAR LOAF PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CHRISTMAS STEPS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202061
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Sugar Loaf Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SUGAR LOAF PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CHRISTMAS STEPS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202061
- Date first listed:
- 03-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Sugar Loaf Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SUGAR LOAF PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CHRISTMAS STEPS
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:
- THE SUGAR LOAF PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, CHRISTMAS STEPS
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 58645 73170
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE CHRISTMAS STEPS 901-1/11/42 (South side) 03/12/73 No.1 The Sugar Loaf Public House (Formerly Listed as: CHRISTMAS STEPS Nos.1-7 (Consecutive)) (Formerly Listed as: CHRISTMAS STEPS No.1A)
GV II
House and pair of attached houses, now one public house. c1710, altered late C18/early C19, converted late C20, exterior joinery dating from then. Roughcast, render and brick, clinker plinth, brick right-hand lateral stack and pantile hipped roof. 3 double-depth plan units linked into one. 3 storeys and attic; 3-window range. The early C18 elevation facing the bottom of Host Street is symmetrical with a clinker plinth below the ground-floor cills, a public house front to the right-hand corner and return, and overhanging timber eaves cornice. A central doorway has a timber pediment on moulded brackets with recessed bed mould and a door with 4 raised panels. Raised surrounds to 6/6-pane ground-floor, 9/9-pane first-floor and 6/9-pane second-floor sashes, in exposed frames; 2 hipped dormers. Paired 8/8-pane sashes to the public house beneath a cornice; the 1-window right-hand return has paired 12/12-pane public house front sashes, and windows above as the front. 2 right-hand sections stepped up Christmas Steps have C20 public house glazing to the ground floors; the middle one has left-of-centre hoist doors above with double doors, and extends up abutting the brick stack; the right-hand section has ashlar lintels to first-floor plate-glass and second-floor 3/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: chamfered ceiling beams, ground-floor fireplace, and C20 public house interior. Nos 1-7 Christmas Steps were listed on 4.3.1977. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 12).
Listing NGR: ST5864573170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379122
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 12
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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