15, CLARE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202087
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: 15, CLARE STREET
Statutory Address:: 15, CLARE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202087
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: 15, CLARE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 15, CLARE STREET

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:: 15, CLARE STREET

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 58674 72939

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/545 (North West side) 04/03/77 No.15

GV II

Formerly known as: No.15 City Fire Office CLARE STREET. Office. 1889. By EH Edwards. Limestone ashlar with terracotta details, tile-hung third floor, brick and ashlar banded lateral and ridge stacks, and slate roof hipped to the corner. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 4 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A corner site has an entrance in the splayed corner beneath a 2-storey oriel bow, with 3 windows to the right return, and an open loggia on the third floor. The ground floor is rendered beneath a sill band with an egg-and-dart cornice; first and second floors have sill bands and strings, paired pilasters with swagged capitals to each floor, red terracotta panels with festoon and ribbons to first-floor aprons, and a cornice with a balustrade of strapwork panels and dies with urns. The third floor has an open loggia of elliptical arches, 1 to Clare Street and 3 to St Stephen's Avenue, with 2 semicircular arches to the corner and right-hand side, a central lateral stack, and an ashlar dormer in the right return to the right with a stone Ipswich window and cyma gable topped by a broken pediment. The entrance has half pilasters to an entablature, incised voussoirs to a semicircular-arched doorway with wrought-iron grille and double doors, 4 raised panels below 4 upper panels with lozenges. The left-hand doorway has shallow squat pilasters with scrolled shoulders beneath a thick lintel and steep pediment, and similar doors. Similar paired pilasters to semicircular-arched ground-floor windows with egg-and-dart label; the oriel has a swagged bowed base. Second- and third-floor windows in recessed canted bays, with Ipswich windows and stained glass above the transoms; 3-light mullion and transom corner bow, with a small flush bowed mullion and transom window above the left-hand doorway. Third-floor windows have casements, with a canted bay to the left-hand side; the right-hand dormer gable has a small window with glazing bars; paired dormers to the right return separated by a banded stack, and similar stacks to the end gables and Clare Street front. Basement windows have segmental arches, tripartite to the middle, with wrought-iron grilles. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. Based on Norman Shaw's town house designs, with inventive details of Edwards' own. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 405).

Listing NGR: ST5867372941

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Legacy System number:: 379192
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 405

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.