NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202325
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202325
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6, KING STREET

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:: NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6, KING 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 58855 72711

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre 901-1/16/598 (South side) 08/01/59 No.6 and attached railings

GV II*

Attached house, now offices. c1665, refronted c1720. Timber-framed, front of red brick with limestone dressings, and pantile double-pile roof, hipped to the front and gabled at the rear, and rear stair tower. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 6-window range. A regular front has rusticated pilaster strips, strings to each floor and moulded coping. The doorway to right of centre has a moulded frame, 4-pane overlight and 6-panel door, with a shell hood on carved acanthus brackets. Lintels have 5 incised voussoirs to 9/9-pane sashes in flush frames with thick bars, and 2 hipped dormers with 6/6-pane sashes. Steps down to left-hand basement doorway. The left return has varied fenestration with 2 doorways to the left. INTERIOR: good C18 ground-floor panelling, earlier to right-hand room with a continuous overmantel and fire surround, and flanking cupboards; raised panels and an early C18 safe in left-hand room with a mid C18 Adamesque fire surround; chamfered beams in central hall with bar stops; central rear open-well C17 stair in its own stair tower, with uncut string, turned balusters and square newels, rebuilt to upper floors, and panelled, ramped C18 wainscot; collar beam trusses in attic. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached basement area cast-iron railings, curved up to the doorway. The original gables, presumably like those on the neighbouring Nos 7 & 8 King Street (qv), were cut back to form hips when refronted. The C18 front has stylistic links with contemporary houses in Dowry Square. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 100).

Listing NGR: ST5885572711

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Legacy System number:: 379859
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 100

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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.