3, 4 AND 5, COLSTON PARADE

3, 4 AND 5, COLSTON PARADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202139
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:
3, 4 AND 5, COLSTON PARADE
Statutory Address:
3, 4 AND 5, COLSTON PARADE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202139
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
3, 4 AND 5, COLSTON PARADE
Statutory Address 1:
3, 4 AND 5, COLSTON PARADE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
3, 4 AND 5, COLSTON PARADE

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 59129 72231

Details

BRISTOL

ST5972 COLSTON PARADE, Redcliff 901-1/42/1670 (South side) 08/01/59 Nos.3, 4 AND 5 (Formerly Listed as: COLSTON PARADE Nos.1-5 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 3 houses. c1762. Stucco on rubble with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. Banded rustication to ground floor with incised voussoirs to a plat band, cornice and parapet, and coped party walls; Nos 3 & 5 have left-hand doorways, No.4 right-hand, with Gibbs surrounds, stepped keys, brackets to pediments and 6-panel doors. Cambered heads to 6/6-pane sashes, and hipped dormers with casements. Boot scrapers beside the doors, and grilles in the pavement to the basement. INTERIOR: No.4, entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch on fluted brackets with panelled soffit, a good central open-well stair with 3 column-on-vase balusters per tread, plain column balusters to the attic, column newels and a ramped, wreathed rail; panelled wainscot, modillion cornices, ceiling roses, fireplaces and eared overmantels; 4-panel doors, 2 panels in the attic; basement has a segmental arch over the range, gun brackets above, and a copper, and a vaulted front basement with steps up to the front pavement. Part of a terrace with Nos 1 & 2 Colston Parade (qv). The doorcases closely match those of Nos 2-7 King Square (qv), which is probably by Thomas Paty (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 201).

Listing NGR: ST5912372228

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Legacy System number:
379340
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 201

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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