EMMAUS HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL

EMMAUS HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, HENSMAN'S HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202289
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: EMMAUS HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address:: EMMAUS HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, HENSMAN'S HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202289
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: EMMAUS HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: EMMAUS HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, HENSMAN'S HILL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EMMAUS HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, HENSMAN'S 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 57175 72885

Details

BRISTOL

ST5772NW HENSMAN'S HILL, Clifton 901-1/14/873 (South side) 08/01/59 Emmaus House and attached front garden wall (Formerly Listed as: HENSMAN'S HILL (South side) Clifton Grove)

GV II

Attached house, now convent. Early C18. Flemish-bond brick with limestone dressings, gable stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical front of red brick with yellow headers, rusticated pilaster strips through a ground-floor string, first-floor cornice and moulded parapet coping. Mid C18 doorway has pilasters to an open pediment, semicircular-arched doorway with a teardrop fanlight and lantern, and door with 6 raised panels. Windows have rubbed brick flat arches with keys, 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames, 3/3-panes to the attic. Semicircular stair windows in the right return. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a semicircular panelled arch to a rear right-hand open dogleg stair with column balusters, column newels and moulded ramped rail, and early C19 marble fireplace. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared coursed front garden wall to NE with panelled ashlar piers, spear-headed cast-iron gates and railings. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 30).

Listing NGR: ST5717572885

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Legacy System number:: 379760
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest30

Legal

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