Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings)

CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL, 1, COLLEGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202110
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings)
Statutory Address:
CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL, 1, COLLEGE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202110
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and Attached Area Railings)
Statutory Address 1:
CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL, 1, COLLEGE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL, 5, CLIFTON PARK

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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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL, 1, COLLEGE ROAD
Statutory Address:
CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL, 5, CLIFTON PARK

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:
ST5710573458

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773SW

901-1/8/795

CLIFTON PARK, Clifton (North side) No.5

Clifton High School (5 Clifton Park and attached area railings)

(Formerly Listed as: Clifton Park House and attached area railings)

(Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON PARK (North side) No.5)

04/03/77

II

Includes: No.1 COLLEGE ROAD Clifton.

Pair of attached houses, converted to a school. Circa 1850. By Charles Underwood. Limestone ashlar with lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Two storeys, attic and basement; three window range. A symmetrical front to College Road has the centre broken forward, with pilasters to a frieze, dentil cornice and coped attic storey. Banded outer ground floor, and a full-height central three-light bow, with subordinate pilasters to the windows and recessed lintels with rosettes, to two-over-two pane sashes; similar outer tripartite ground-floor windows, architraves to the upper floors, with six-over-six pane sashes, three-over-three panes to the attic. The left-hand return has three window range, with at the rear a single-storey former conservatory, with pilasters to an entablature. The entrance to the rear.

INTERIOR: central rear open dogleg stair to the first floor with Greek Revival-style cast-iron balusters; six panel doors with panelled reveals, panelled shutters, cornices and ceiling roses.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached basement area cast-iron railings. Similar details and fenestration to the end houses of Worcester Terrace (qv), by Underwood. Circa 1960 extensions not included. Now connected, with a mid C20 entrance.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 September 2017.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
379255
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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