2-7, GLOUCESTER STREET, 30 AND 32, PORTLAND STREET, 2-6, JAMES PLACE
2-6, JAMES PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202449
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 2-7, GLOUCESTER STREET, 30 AND 32, PORTLAND STREET, 2-6, JAMES PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 2-6, JAMES PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202449
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 2-7, GLOUCESTER STREET, 30 AND 32, PORTLAND STREET, 2-6, JAMES PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-6, JAMES PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 2-7, GLOUCESTER STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- 30 AND 32, PORTLAND 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:
- 2-6, JAMES PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 2-7, GLOUCESTER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 30 AND 32, PORTLAND 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 56889 73159
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673SE PORTLAND STREET, Clifton 901-1/7/927 (North side) Nos.30 AND 32
GV II
Includes: Nos.2-7 GLOUCESTER STREET Clifton. Includes: Nos.2-6 JAMES PLACE Clifton. 13 attached houses. Early C19. Roughcast and black stucco with limestone dressings, party wall stacks, and valley roofs. Single-depth plan houses arranged to form a 3-sided court. Each of 3 storeys; 1-window range, 2 windows to houses facing Portland Street, with basements to Gloucester Street. 3 connected terraces, 2 with a house facing on to Portland Street and backed by terraces of 3 to the SW and 2 to the NE facing each other across a flagged court, linked by a terrace of 6 across the back facing Gloucester Street. Each house has a plinth, pilaster strips to a frieze, cornice and parapet, with first- and second-floor sill bands; Nos 30 & 32 have central doorways, No.2 Gloucester Street linked to No.1 and without a doorway, the rest are paired, with raised surrounds and bracketed flat cornices, rectangular overlights with margin panes to doors with 4 flush panels. Raised, keyed surrounds with rounded corners, cornices and sill blocks, plain second-floor surrounds, to horned 2/2-pane sashes with margin panes; basement grilles to Gloucester Street. Wide arched vaults to the Gloucester Street houses open into the court. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rear yards. HISTORICAL NOTE: a unique arrangement with Carter's Buildings (qv) of courtyard housing in Bristol. Courts were more common from the late C18 in the fast-growing industrial towns of the north. Shown on Donne's 1821 map.
Listing NGR: ST5688973159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380197
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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