Harley Villa and Attached Front Piers, Gates and Railings
HARLEY VILLA AND ATTACHED FRONT PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS, CLIFTON DOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202093
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Harley Villa and Attached Front Piers, Gates and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HARLEY VILLA AND ATTACHED FRONT PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS, CLIFTON DOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202093
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Harley Villa and Attached Front Piers, Gates and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARLEY VILLA AND ATTACHED FRONT PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS, CLIFTON DOWN
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:
- HARLEY VILLA AND ATTACHED FRONT PIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS, 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 56835 73372
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673SE CLIFTON DOWN, Clifton 901-1/7/753 (North side) 04/03/77 Harley Villa and attached front garden piers, gates and railings (Formerly Listed as: HARLEY PLACE, Clifton Down Harley Villa)
II
House. Dated 1809 by owner. Limestone ashlar with lateral stack, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. 3 storey, attic, basement and cellar; 1-bay range. A symmetrical front with a right-hand single-storey porch, pilaster strips to a cornice, and shallow pedimented parapet between end blocks with Greek Revival-style incised decoration, and wrought-iron railing with stylised leafs. The porch has an open, keyed semicircular arch with chamfered reveals, cornice and balustrade pierced by oval openings; 2 recessed C20 doors. 2-storey canted bay has cornice and sill blocks, with 6/6-pane and flanking 2/2-pane sashes; 4/8-pane second-floor sash. Rear elevation of 4 storeys with a 3-storey bow with curved sashes to the upper floors. INTERIOR: C20 stair to the upstairs flat, originally a central lateral stair; good rear ground-floor yellow marble fire surround with white marble relief panels; flagged cellar with exposed rock surface to the front. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden wrought-iron railings and gates to Pennant piers with scrolled bracket caps.
Listing NGR: ST5683573372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379212
- 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.
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