Number 30 and Piers and Front Railings
NUMBER 30 AND PIERS AND FRONT RAILINGS, 30, VICTORIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202658
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Number 30 and Piers and Front Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 30 AND PIERS AND FRONT RAILINGS, 30, VICTORIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202658
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 30 and Piers and Front Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 30 AND PIERS AND FRONT RAILINGS, 30, VICTORIA SQUARE
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.
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:
- NUMBER 30 AND PIERS AND FRONT RAILINGS, 30, VICTORIA SQUARE
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 57343 73098
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW VICTORIA SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/8/1082 (South East side) 04/03/77 No.30 and piers and front railings (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA SQUARE (South East side) Nos.26-30 (Consecutive))
GV II
House. c1865. Probably by Archibald Ponton. Limestone ashlar with lateral and party wall stacks and a pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. 3 ashlar faces, with a first-floor moulded sill band and stone cornices to the eaves. A single-storey full-width porch has a side entrance and 3 windows, with pilasters to foliate capitals, moulded eaves and 2-leaf door. Windows above have jambs with foliate capitals and moulded stilted lintels with cornices, to 2/2-pane sashes. The right return has 2-window range, as the front with paired ground-floor and tripartite right-hand windows. Left return has outer 3-light bows. Stacks with cornices. INTERIOR: rear open dogleg stair with barleysugar balusters, curtail and moulded soffits; 6-panel doors, cornices and shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: round, capped piers with cast-iron railings. Probably designed as the Parsonage to St James'. (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 440).
Listing NGR: ST5734373098
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380771
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 440
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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