7 AND 8, KING STREET
7 AND 8, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202326
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 8, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202326
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 8, KING 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.
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:
- 7 AND 8, 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 58841 72708
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre 901-1/16/599 (South side) 08/01/59 Nos.7 AND 8
GV II*
Pair of attached houses, now offices. 1665, partly refenestrated C18, restored 1976. Rendered timber box frame with rubble party wall to No.6 and pantile roof. Single front and rear rooms to each with central stairs each side of the party wall. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. 2 equal gables to the street have shallow jetties with moulded fascia boards to first and second floors, with deep tiled overhanging pents to the first floor and the upper floors of No.7, and boxed eaves. Wide steps up to central paired doorways with moulded frames, No.7 has a framed 9-panel door, No.8 with 6 raised panels. No.7 has paired 10/10-pane ground-floor sashes, a C17 canted 2-storey oriel above with mullion and transom casements, and 4/4-pane horizontal sliding sash to the attic, in flush frames; No.8 has a ground-floor bay with 3 mullion and transom windows and glazing bars, 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames above, 2 to the first and second floors and 1 to the attic. 2 raking dormers over the stair wells face into the valley. Similar rear elevation, with ovolo-moulded mullion windows and leaded casements to the upper floors of No.7, which is slate-hung. INTERIOR: central winder newel stairs set against the party wall, with half splat balusters, and ball finials to No.7; No.8 has an early-mid C18 dogleg stair on the ground floor to the rear, with uncut string, column-on-vase balusters, column newels, and matching panelled wainscot; first-floor front room of No.7 has fleur-de-lys plaster ceiling decoration; collar beam trusses with C19 braces. During restoration, it was found that the oak studding and bracing was largely from reused ships' timbers, and some of the laths were barrel staves. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 83).
Listing NGR: ST5883672707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379861
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 83
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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