12-17, JOHN STREET

12-17, JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202320
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
12-17, JOHN STREET
Statutory Address:
12-17, JOHN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202320
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
12-17, JOHN STREET
Statutory Address 1:
12-17, JOHN STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
12-17, JOHN STREET

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 58825 73161

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE JOHN STREET, Centre 901-1/11/594 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.12-17 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses, now offices. c1770, mid C19 shop fronts. Brick with limestone dressings, brick party walls stacks and slate and pantile mansard roofs, hipped pantile roofs to Nos 15 & 16. Double-depth plan. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range, Nos 12 & 13 of 3 windows. Shop fronts beneath pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, ramped up to No.14, and stepped down to Nos 13 & 15. Shop fronts have pilasters to fascias and cornices; No.12 has a right-hand 6-panel door, and rectangular overlight with margin panes; No.13 has a left-hand doorway; No.14 has left-hand doorway, overlight with margin panes and a tripartite plate-glass window; Nos 15 & 16 are a reverse pair, with scrolled fascia consoles, 16 with a plate-glass window with slim mullions; No.17 has a right-hand 3-panel door and plate-glass window. Windows above have 5 stepped voussoirs to plate-glass sashes, 6/6-pane sashes to Nos 12 & 17. No.14 has a dormer with early C19 wrought-iron railings with pointed arches and quatrefoils round the top. The left return to No.12 in 2 sections, a 2-storey extension to the rear separated by a narrow recess from the 3-storey gabled front, 2:3 windows with cambered heads to 6/6-pane sashes, blind to the right-hand end. The rear has similar windows in a 2-window range. INTERIOR: lateral dogleg winder stairs with slim column-on-vase balusters, ramped rails, uncut string and column newels, a narrower framed newel attic stair, and semicircular-arched brick vaults.

Listing NGR: ST5883773169

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Legacy System number:
379845
Legacy System:
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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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