15, THE PARAGON

15, THE PARAGON

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1202628
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:
15, THE PARAGON
Statutory Address:
15, THE PARAGON
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1202628
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
15, THE PARAGON
Statutory Address 1:
15, THE PARAGON

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
15, THE PARAGON

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 56749 72727

Details

BRISTOL

ST5672NE THE PARAGON, Clifton 901-1/13/1068 (South side) 08/01/59 No.15 (Formerly Listed as: THE PARAGON Nos.1-15 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Attached house. c1814. By Stephen Hunter. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and slate roof. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Entrance front has a projecting ground floor with a cornice and flat roof, banded first floor with large projecting 3-light bow set in from the left, with a sill band and moulded brackets to a cornice with raised panels between, third-floor string and cornice, with attic storey with moulded coping. Projecting left-hand open porch has square piers with banded reveals, imposts, panelled above, with semicircular arches between and to narrow sides blocked by low balustrades; segmental-arched doorway has a 2-leaf 6-panel door with raised upper panels and cut off corners. 4 windows to the right, the middle ones blind, with segmental-arched heads and pilasters, over a full-width segmental basement arch with 4 windows with glazing bars. Horned 6/6-pane first-floor sashes, the middle one blind, with eared surrounds, 3/6-pane second-floor and attic sashes. Front elevation built on a massive red rubble revetment. 2 storeys, attic and double basement; 4-window range; a lower basement has curved end, a parapet with a central balustrade section, the left return is banded with curved end and balustrade. Basement has 3 windows with pedimented lintels; at the right end a projecting 5-window bow has a glazed dome. 6/6-pane sashes, 3/6-pane second-floor and attic storey sashes, and 2 dormers. INTERIOR not inspected. Added to The Paragon when completed by Hunter, and with matching floor levels to No.14 (qv). Part of the important view of Clifton from the S across the Avon.

Listing NGR: ST5675372722

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Legacy System number:
380693
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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