56, CORN STREET
56, CORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202154
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- 56, CORN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, CORN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202154
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 56, CORN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, 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:
- 56, 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 58865 73024
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE CORN STREET, Centre 901-1/11/573 (South East side) 08/01/59 No.56 (Formerly Listed as: CORN STREET (South side) Nos.46 AND 56 Exchange Buildings)
GV II*
Coffee house. 1782. By Thomas Paty. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Single-depth plan, upper floors projecting back over the N aisle of All Saints Church (qv). Palladian style. 3 storeys; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has a pedimented centre set forward with a ground-floor impost band, plat band, rusticated quoins above to a frieze, cornice and parapet. Ground-floor arcade of keyed semicircular arches with moulded archivolts, plate-glass below upper panes; architraves above with sill blocks, and pediments to the first floor, to 6/6-pane sashes. Matching right-hand return, slightly narrower, with a left-hand doorway, blind right-hand ground-floor arch and central upper windows. INTERIOR: C20 stair on the ground floor, central dogleg stair to the upper floors with turned balusters, column newels and ball finials. Built by Paty to balance Glascodine's matching Old Post Office (qv) at the opposite side of the Exchange (qv), and forming a formal composition with them. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 149; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 416).
Listing NGR: ST5886573024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 416
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 149
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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