Numbers 1 to 6 and Attached Area Railings
NUMBERS 1 TO 6 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 1-6, PORTLAND SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1202443
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 6 and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 6 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 1-6, PORTLAND SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1202443
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 6 and Attached Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 6 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 1-6, PORTLAND SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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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:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 6 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 1-6, PORTLAND SQUARE
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 59385 73663
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973NW PORTLAND SQUARE, St Paul 901-1/6/1900 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive) and attached area railings
GV I
Terrace of 6 houses. 1789-1820. By Daniel Hague. Limestone ashlar, brick stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. Part of a symmetrical composition to the side of the square, interrupted by Surrey Street, in which the end houses project slightly with an ashlar attic storey. A rusticated ground floor, with pilasters from the first-floor plat band to a modillion cornice and parapet; right-hand doorcases have Ionic columns and modillion pediments, batswing fanlights and 6-panel doors; rusticated voussoirs to the ground-floor windows and plain voussoirs above, with 6/6-pane sashes; the end gables have a large central semicircular-arched doorway with a Gibbs surround, and a similar stair windows above. INTERIOR: largely rebuilt c1974 behind the facades, with restored lateral, curved open-well stairs to the middle. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spear railings to basement areas. Part of Bristol's '...most complete and beautiful square' (Gomme). (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 220; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 55).
Listing NGR: ST5938773659
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380184
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dening, C F W, The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol, (1923), 55
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 220
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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