Numbers 1 to 12 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
NUMBERS 1 TO 12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 1-12, THE POLYGON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202629
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 12 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 1-12, THE POLYGON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202629
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 12 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 1-12, THE POLYGON
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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 1 TO 12 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 1-12, THE POLYGON
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 56936 72704
Details
BRISTOL
ST5672NE THE POLYGON, Clifton 901-1/13/1071 (South East side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-12 (Consecutive) and attached front garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: THE POLYGON Nos.1-12 (Consecutive))
GV II
Terrace of 12 houses. Started 1826. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and a slate mansard half hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A sharply convex terrace articulated by pilasters to a cornice and parapet, ramped up over the party walls. Right-hand doorways have narrow overlights and 6-panel doors, the upper 4 raised with corners cut out, the bottom pair reeded. 6/6-pane sashes, and 2 dormers. First-floor timber balconies have iron brackets and wrought-iron pointed-arched railings with quatrefoils. The rear elevation has a cornice, and a 3-window range to No.12; projecting 1- and 2-storey service blocks, originally with semicircular-arched windows. INTERIOR: No.3, entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch from a dogleg stair with uncut string, stick balusters, column newels and ramped, banded rail; front ground-floor rooms linked by panelled double doors, marble fire surround with reeded jambs and corner roundels to a good hop grate to the back and an arch-plate register grate to the front; flagged basement with cooking range, and dresser in the rear block; 6-panel doors and panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick front garden walls with slim capped ashlar piers, some railings with cast-iron anthemion finials; pair of large entrance piers to the S end inscribed POLYGON. (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 140).
Listing NGR: ST5693872704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 140
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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