Merchant Hall and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
MERCHANT HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, THE PROMENADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202630
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant Hall and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- MERCHANT HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, THE PROMENADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202630
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Merchant Hall and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERCHANT HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, THE PROMENADE
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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:
- MERCHANT HALL AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, THE PROMENADE
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 56592 73656
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673NE THE PROMENADE, Clifton 901-1/1/970 (South East side) Merchant Hall and attached front garden walls, piers and gates
GV II
Pair of attached houses, now club. 1868. By Popes and Bindon, converted C20 for Merchant Venturers. Limestone ashlar and pink sandstone rubble with limestone dressings, lateral and party wall stacks, and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Each of 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A symmetrical front with entrance porches set forward at the ends, rusticated quoins, ground-floor cornice, and a deep, bracketed cornice cut through by attic windows. Ashlar porches have open semicircular arches and balustrades, with 2 similar arched windows in the sides, and a semicircular-arched doorway with fanlights; lower pavilions behind with hipped roofs. Ashlar ground-floor has an arcade of semicircular-arched windows, the middle one blind and set forward, with faceted jambs, flat-headed first-floor windows with architraves, and enlarged attic windows with eared architraves. The end pavilions have paired semicircular-arched first-floor windows, the ones above as the attic. INTERIOR: former party walls removed, large central full-width hall with a reset Imperial stair, and various fittings imported from other houses. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls with 2 pairs of large gate piers with modillion cornices, and wrought-iron gates. Large and heavily decorated, on an important site and with group value. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 279).
Listing NGR: ST5659273656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 279
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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