Walker Dunbar Hospital and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
WALKER DUNBAR HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202100
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Walker Dunbar Hospital and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- WALKER DUNBAR HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202100
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Walker Dunbar Hospital and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALKER DUNBAR HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
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:
- WALKER DUNBAR HOSPITAL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
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 57079 73194
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW CLIFTON DOWN ROAD, Clifton 901-1/8/769 (East side) 04/03/77 Walker Dunbar Hospital and attached front garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN ROAD (East side) Walker Dunbar Hospital)
GV II
Formerly known as: Duncan House CLIFTON DOWN ROAD. House, now hospital. Late C18. Porch and mansard 1884 by C Hansom. Limestone ashlar with brick gable stacks and a slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 6-window range. A symmetrical front with a 1-window left-hand extension set back, rusticated ground floor to a plat band, cornice and parapet. Single-storey porch has pilasters, an entablature and pediment, jambs with imposts and a semicircular arch to 2-leaf glazed C20 doors. Ground-floor windows have keys and plate-glass sashes, first-floor 6/6-pane sashes, second-floor plate-glass sashes, and five 3/3-pane dormers. 2 rear semicircular-arched stair windows. INTERIOR: largely C19, entrance hall with an elliptical arch to a central rear open-well stair with column balusters and a ramped moulded rail, modillion cornice, and panelled doors and shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick and rubble front garden wall and ashlar piers. Like Mortimer House next door (qv), a town house built before the terraces took over in Clifton. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 263).
Listing NGR: ST5707973194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 263
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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