BEDFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS WIDCOMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

BEDFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 23, RICHMOND HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202501
Date first listed:: 20-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: BEDFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS WIDCOMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: BEDFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 23, RICHMOND HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202501
Date first listed:: 20-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: BEDFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS WIDCOMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: BEDFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 23, RICHMOND HILL
Statutory Address 2:: WIDCOMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 22, RICHMOND HILL

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:: BEDFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 23, RICHMOND HILL
Statutory Address:: WIDCOMBE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, WALLS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 22, RICHMOND HILL

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 57621 73364

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773SE RICHMOND HILL, Clifton 901-1/9/985 (North side) 20/03/74 Nos.22 AND 23 Widcombe House (22), Bedford House (23) and attached railings, walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND HILL (North side) Nos.22 AND 23)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Deeds dated 1831. By Charles Dyer. Limestone ashlar, lateral and party wall stacks and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style with Greek Revival details. Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. A fine symmetrical pair with 4 elevations; that to the front has a broad central pilaster, with a pedimented die over the parapet above; outer sections broken forward with doorways 1 window in from the ends, frieze, cornice and coped attic storey. Good open porticos with fluted Ionic columns to an entablature and cornice, plate-glass overlights and 6-panel doors. Architraves to windows, with a pediment to the first-floor window over the porches, narrow outer blind windows, to 6/6-pane sashes; 2-light plate-glass attic casements. The rendered return has a symmetrical 3-window range, the middle broken forward, giant pilasters to a cornice, parapet with blind outer balustrades and middle with flanking stacks and balustrade between. A small porch has a segmental-arched doorway, an overlight with glazing bars and half-glazed door; above is a large stair window with fine glazing bars, blind windows to the right and grilles to basement windows. Symmetrical rear elevation has a 4-window range, the ends broken forward with paired pilasters to a deep frieze, central pilaster to frieze forming sunken first-floor panels. Balustrade in 2 sections to the middle, and outer attic storeys with flanking paired panels with pediments. Inner shallow bays have tripartite windows with panelled heads, tripartite windows above, architraves to outer windows; 6/6-pane sashes, and 3/3-pane attic sashes. INTERIOR: entrance hall, a semicircular arch with Greek key soffit to a large stair hall with a lateral open dogleg stair, cast-iron balusters with palmettes, and a wreathed rail to curtail; panelled reveals, panelled shutters, 6-panel doors, cornices with guilloche, and marble fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron front basement area railings with diagonal bars, and low panelled piers and walls to the porticos; panelled, round-topped entrance piers and squared, coursed front rubble walls extending between. Part of a fine group of three 4-sided villas to the N side of Richmond Hill which "..set a new standard for suburban aspirations" (Mowl). (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 159; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 275).

Listing NGR: ST5762173364

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Legacy System number:: 380348
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 275
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 159

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.