DOVER COTTAGES NUMBERS 1-11 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS

DOVER COTTAGES, 1-11, DOVER PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202196
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: DOVER COTTAGES NUMBERS 1-11 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: DOVER COTTAGES, 1-11, DOVER PLACE

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Date:: 2006-03-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202196
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: DOVER COTTAGES NUMBERS 1-11 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: DOVER COTTAGES, 1-11, DOVER PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: NUMBERS 1-11 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-11, DOVER PLACE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: DOVER COTTAGES, 1-11, DOVER PLACE
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1-11 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-11, DOVER PLACE

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 57653 73137

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773SE DOVER PLACE, Clifton 901-1/9/845 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.1-11 (Consecutive) and attached basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: DOVER PLACE Nos.1-11 (Consecutive))

GV II

Includes: Nos.1-11 (Consecutive) Dover Cottages DOVER PLACE Clifton. Terrace of 11 houses. Dated 1863 by deeds. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Classical terrace with Gothic-style fenestration. 3 storeys and triple basement; 2-window range. Terrace with ramped centre to parapet, each house has 2 full-height raised sections containing the openings, a moulded coping that breaks forward over these, with the ground floor banded in between to a string. Left-hand doorways with trefoil heads, fanlights with round lights, and 4-panel doors with rounded tops to glazed upper panels. Semicircular-arched windows have vermiculated spandrel panels and plain surrounds with shoulders; torus-moulded frames have 3 semicircular lights to the ground floor and 2 to the upper floors, with circular upper lights set between them. Plate-glass windows. Nos 9 & 10 have right-hand doorways, No.11 has a 2-storey porch set in front with side doorway. Rear elevation has 2-storey canted oriel; lower 2 basement storeys form separate houses with doorways to the upper floors linked by a raised path. INTERIOR: upper houses have an entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch on corbels, to a lateral open dogleg stair with turned balusters; 6-panel doors, panelled shutters and cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed cast-iron basement area railings. Built on the side of a quarry and unusually using the fall in ground to increase accommodation. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 259).

Listing NGR: ST5765373137

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Legacy System number:: 379500
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 259

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.