Melrose Cottages
MELROSE COTTAGES, 39-45, COTHAM HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202169
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Melrose Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- MELROSE COTTAGES, 39-45, COTHAM HILL
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202169
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Melrose Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- MELROSE COTTAGES, 39-45, COTHAM HILL
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:
- MELROSE COTTAGES, 39-45, COTHAM HILL
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 57870 74020
Details
BRISTOL
ST5774 COTHAM HILL, Cotham 901-1/34/1157 (West side) 04/03/77 Nos.39-45 (Odd) Melrose Cottages
GV II
Terrace of 4 houses. 1843-4. Probably by George Gay. Rendered with limestone dressings, party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 2 storeys and basement; 2 windows. A composed terrace of 2 handed pairs with pilasters framing outer doorways and to party walls, frieze, cornice and parapet, ramped up at the ends and centre. Steps up to outer doorways which have paired pilasters to an entablature, overlights with margin bars, No.45 with a lantern, and 2-panel doors. Large ground-floor windows have pilasters to an entablature and 10/10-pane sashes, architraves to second floor 6/6-pane sashes, smaller over the doors with panelled aprons; basement sashes. INTERIOR: entrance hall to a central stair hall with open-well stair with stick balusters, urn newels, a ramped rail, and a small room between the stair and the party wall; stone fireplaces with fluted sides and roundels, with baskets with Greek Revival decoration, cornices with palmettes, 6-panel doors, panelled shutters. Possibly one of Gay's early terraces, featuring characteristic details such as paired pilasters and raised lintels.
Listing NGR: ST5787074020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379418
- 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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