AUBURN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES SUTTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES

AUBURN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202090
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: AUBURN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES SUTTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: AUBURN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202090
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: AUBURN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES SUTTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: AUBURN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
Statutory Address 2:: SUTTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN

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:: AUBURN HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
Statutory Address:: SUTTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN

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 56700 73844

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673NE CLIFTON DOWN, Clifton 901-1/1/745 (North East side) 04/03/77 Auburn House and Sutton House and attached garden walls, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN Auburn House and Sutton House)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1855. Squared Brandon Hill Grit rubble with limestone dressings, party wall and exterior stacks and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Jacobethan style. Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A large symmetrical central block has projecting wings with rusticated quoin strips, an ashlar basement to a sill band, deep first-floor band, dentil cornice, and parapet with panelled dies and moulded coping. Entrances in the returns: Sutton House has an open semicircular-arched porch and attached segmental-arched porte cochere, both with faceted keys and a balustrade, pilasters with faceted panels and strapwork, to a tiled lobby with a niche; Auburn House has a similar porch facing the side, both have semicircular-arched doorways with plate-glass fanlights and 2-leaf 6-panel doors. Canted 5-window ground-floor bays with square, blind lattice balconies and weathered corners, the middle pair with semicircular arches each side, and 3-light first-floor mullion windows in raised surrounds. The wings have large ornate dormers with mullion windows, panelled aprons, flanking Ionic pilasters with flared shafts and faceted panels, to entablatures, with segmental pediments and brackets to square finials; large flanking strapwork consoles, with corner finials. The parapet has panels beneath 2 dormers, each set back behind open ashlar semicircular arches on square piers, with segmental pediments and cast-iron finials. Basement windows have segmental-arched heads and incised voussoirs. Plate-glass sashes. Large stacks with cornices. 1-window wings project from the returns, with swept eaves. Auburn House has a single-storey conservatory in the front of the right return, with semicircular arches to a parapet. Rear elevation has projecting wings each of 3 windows, with round windows to the attic. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared coursed Carboniferous rubble walls extend approx 90m to front and sides of front garden, with a battered base, bracketed coping, and ashlar gate piers with moulded caps and timber gates with decorative cast-iron panels. Part of a group of 4 imposing houses facing Clifton Down.

Listing NGR: ST5670073844

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 379201
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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