Numbers 2 and 3 and Attached Area Railings, Gate and Piers
NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, GATE AND PIERS, 2 AND 3, SION HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202569
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 3 and Attached Area Railings, Gate and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, GATE AND PIERS, 2 AND 3, SION HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202569
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 3 and Attached Area Railings, Gate and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, GATE AND PIERS, 2 AND 3, SION HILL
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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:
- NUMBERS 2 AND 3 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, GATE AND PIERS, 2 AND 3, SION 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 56654 73011
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673SE SION HILL, Clifton 901-1/7/1017 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.2 AND 3 and attached area railings, gate and piers (Formerly Listed as: SION HILL Nos.2 AND 3)
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1800. Limestone ashlar, brick party wall stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 1-bay range. A matching pair, the right-hand one set forward, with outer pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, sill bands and first-floor string. Steps up to left-hand doorways with shallow recessed surrounds and deeply-set doorways with plate-glass overlights and 6-panel doors, the top pair raised with cut off corners. Full-height 3-light bows have panelled ground-floor aprons with curved 6/6-pane and flanking 4/4-pane sashes, 3/6-pane and 2/4-pane second-floor sashes, with blind boxes. 2 dormers and single basement windows. First-floor timber tented balconies have wrought-iron pointed-arched railings with quatrefoils and stanchions. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a central lateral open dogleg stair with stick balusters and a wreathed rail and curtail, lit by a round lantern, with a room between the stair and party wall, semicircular-arched recesses, 6-panel doors with reeded architraves, panelled shutters and fire surrounds. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front basement area railings and gates with urn finials, and capped banded piers. A most distinctive design which benefits from the use of bold full-height rounded bays with fine tented balconies.
Listing NGR: ST5665873008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380532
- 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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