Numbers 40 and 42 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Ball Finials
NUMBERS 40 AND 42 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND BALL FINIALS, 40 AND 42, DOWNLEAZE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202201
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 40 and 42 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Ball Finials
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 40 AND 42 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND BALL FINIALS, 40 AND 42, DOWNLEAZE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202201
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 40 and 42 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Ball Finials
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 40 AND 42 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND BALL FINIALS, 40 AND 42, DOWNLEAZE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- NUMBERS 40 AND 42 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND BALL FINIALS, 40 AND 42, DOWNLEAZE
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 56486 75077
Details
BRISTOL
ST5775 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park 901-1/31/1796 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.40 AND 42 and attached front garden walls and ball finials (Formerly Listed as: DOWNLEAZE Nos.45, 47 AND 36-42 (Even))
GV II
Pair of attached houses. 1898. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked limestone rubble and dressings, tile-hung top floor, brick ridge and diagonally-set external stacks and tiled gabled and hipped roof. Queen Anne style. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. A well-detailed, near symmetrical front with projecting paired central gables, and a matching gable in the Julian Road right elevation. The entrance to the right of the gables has a large Tuscan porch and a segmental-arched 2-leaf door with a lozenge panel, that in the left return has an eared architrave with a panel above to a 2-leaf ridged door. Ground-floor stone-framed mullion and transom leaded casements, timber first-floor windows with plate-glass casements, leaded above the transoms, and second-floor casements projecting slightly on small brackets. The ground-floor is divided by a raked buttress to the party wall, and 4-light windows either side with a central king mullion, under a parapet with a cartouche; first-floor canted bays have Ipswich windows, with tapering octagonal columns from the ends of the parapet to the overhanging gable above; second-floor 4-light casements, under modillion eaves. To the right, flanking the doorway, is a large chimney breast, and to the left a ground-floor segmental bow window beneath a balcony, with 3-light windows to the ground and first floors, and a gabled second-floor eaves dormer. INTERIOR: hall screen with stained-glass half-glazed door and side lights, a tiled central hall, and a fireplace and built-in dresser cupboards in the rear right-hand room; the stairs were removed when the house was converted to flats. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers with ball finials. Strongly influenced by Norman Shaw's Bedford Park, 1881. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 398).
Listing NGR: ST5648675077
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379516
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 398
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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