Number 8 and Attached Area Railings and Gates

NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 8, SION HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202571
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:
Number 8 and Attached Area Railings and Gates
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 8, SION HILL
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202571
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Number 8 and Attached Area Railings and Gates
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 8, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 8 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 8, 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 56656 73059

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673SE SION HILL, Clifton 901-1/7/1021 (East side) 08/01/59 No.8 and attached area railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: SION HILL No.8)

GV II

Attached house, now a pair. Early C19. Render with limestone dressings, brick party wall and ridge stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. A near-symmetrical front has a 2-window centre broken forward, outer pilaster strips, cornice and parapet. Outer doorways: a large C19 tripartite entrance to the right has pilasters to an entablature and dentil cornice, panelled mullions, margin and overlights, with a half-height bowed Tuscan portico and 6-panel door; left-hand plain late C19 doorway and 6-panel door. Central ground- and first-floor windows have sashes with margin panes, outer first-floor French windows with margin panes, and 6/6-pane second-floor sashes. 2 basement windows; small right-hand doorway. Mid C19 full-width first-floor tented timber balcony has cast-iron brackets and railings with lattice sections separated by panels with anthemia in arched tops, and cobweb spandrels. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front basement area railings and gates with urn finials.

Listing NGR: ST5665673059

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
380536
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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