Numbers 31 and 33 and Attached Railings to Rear

NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO REAR, 31 AND 33, COTHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202176
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
Numbers 31 and 33 and Attached Railings to Rear
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO REAR, 31 AND 33, COTHAM ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202176
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 31 and 33 and Attached Railings to Rear
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO REAR, 31 AND 33, COTHAM ROAD

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO REAR, 31 AND 33, COTHAM ROAD

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 58547 73996

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873NE COTHAM ROAD, Cotham 901-1/5/1182 (North West side) 04/03/77 Nos.31 AND 33 and attached railings to rear (Formerly Listed as: COTHAM ROAD (North side) Nos.17-35 (Odd))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1840. Probably by George Gay. Limestone ashlar with rendered sides, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 4-window range. A symmetrical front has projecting wings with ground-floor bays and a wide central recess, and entrances in the returns; a moulded plinth, banded rustication on the ground floor to a dentil entablature which runs round the tops of the bays, paired first-floor pilasters to a console cornice and attic storey with a moulded coping. Doric porches at either end with tall plinths and entablature with curved corners, to a 2-leaf door with a moulded panel and rectangular overlight. The bays have tripartite windows with thin pilaster mullions to plate-glass sashes, below a balustraded balcony in front of tripartite first-floor windows with semicircular heads, larger to the middle, and console cornices, to sashes with curved glazing bars; in between are C20 French windows to the ground floor and architraves to 6/6-pane sashes on the first floor. The basement runs across the front level with the wings, below a tented verandah with cast-iron supports and brackets forming semicircular arches and a central elliptical arch; attic windows have moulded jambs to 3/3-pane sashes; basement has 6/6-pane sashes. Tall stair windows to the sides at the rear have 6-4-pane sashes with stained-glass margin panes. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spear-headed railings at the rear to steps down to basement entrance below porch. Nos 17-33 (qv) have a common plan and interior and share many exterior details with a number of houses built by Gay in Tyndall's Park and Cotham.

Listing NGR: ST5854773996

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
379443
Legacy System:
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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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