47, CORN STREET
47, CORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202153
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 47, CORN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 47, CORN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202153
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 47, CORN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 47, CORN STREET
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:
- 47, CORN STREET
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 58797 73016
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/11/570 (North West side) 04/03/77 No.47
GV II
Office. 1878. Signed by James Weir. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. L-shaped double-depth plan. Italian palazzo style. 4 storeys and basement; 5-window range. A corner site has a splayed 1-window corner and 11-window right-hand return, with cornices at each floor breaking forward to attached columns, paired on the corner and left-hand end; a tall plinth to ground-floor arcade of Tuscan aedicules, paired columns at each end, Corinthian first floor, second-floor panelled pilaster jambs, and third-floor panelled jambs, banded at the ends, with foliate capitals, to a cornice, parapet and blocking course. The corner has a large doorway with attached columns on pedestals to segmental pediment, keyed semicircular arch with rope moulding, and C20 doors and fanlight. Semicircular-arched ground-floor windows with fluted keys and pilaster jambs above panelled aprons, with metal glazing bars, architraves to first floor with pediments, that on corner and left-hand side tripartite with Corinthian mullions. Second-floor segmental-arched windows, Venetian to the left-hand end, third-floor paired semicircular-arched windows with capitals, moulded archivolts and keys, Venetian at the left-hand end. Plate-glass sashes. The right-hand return articulated as the front, of 3 storeys for the right-hand 5 windows, with a semicircular-arched doorway 6 bays from the corner beneath a Venetian window. INTERIOR: extensively remodelled; the side entrance leads to a lobby of 3 bays articulated by Corinthian pilasters on panelled plinths; from the first floor an oval open stone winder stair is top lit, with ornate cast-iron balusters. The lower side elevation was to ensure light to the Commercial Rooms behind (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 355; The Builder: London: 543).
Listing NGR: ST5879773016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379375
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 355
The Builder, (12 December 1930), 543
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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