25 AND 27, CLARE STREET
25 AND 27, CLARE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202088
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 25 AND 27, CLARE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 25 AND 27, CLARE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202088
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 25 AND 27, CLARE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25 AND 27, CLARE STREET
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:
- 25 AND 27, 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 58717 72958
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/547 (North West side) 01/11/66 Nos.25 AND 27
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.25 AND 27 Scottish Provident Building CLARE STREET. Office. 1903. By Oatley and Lawrence. Limestone ashlar and red granite, with a leaded dome. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical 3-sided block has a tall granite plinth with raised bands, banded ashlar above to a moulded band; paired attached Ionic columns to upper floors of each elevation to an entablature and modillion cornice, set forward over the column to open pediments, separated by splayed, inset corners, with a parapet, balustrade between the pediments, and an attic drum with cornice and leaded dome with a stone domed finial. Entrances to the left-hand end and the right-hand corner have Tuscan columns, blocked to the height of the plinth, entablature blocks and segmental pediments, broken back to the middle containing a pedestal and urn, missing from No.25; lintel with split key and festoon each side to 12-panel double doors. Low basement segmental arches with tall raised voussoirs; ground-floor windows between the columns have raised surrounds extending through the moulded band, with split keys and 2 raised voussoirs. Bowed first-floor balconies above to semicircular-arched windows with coved surrounds and large split keys rising into the pediments, and festoon. Flat-headed first-floor windows over the entrances and corners have coved surrounds. Windows with glazing bars. The dome has semicircular-arched dormers to each corner, and panelled leadwork. INTERIOR: left-hand entrance hall to open dogleg stairs with column-on-vase balusters, dentil cornices to 6-panel doors, panelled wainscotting and modillion cornice. A sumptuous and compressed design owing something to the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford. (Mowl T: Bristol, The Last Age of the Merchant Princes: Bristol: 1991-: 75).
Listing NGR: ST5871772958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379194
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, Bristol: The Last Age of the Merchant Princes, (1991), 75
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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