Terrace and Attached Front Area Railings and Gates
TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 2-20, VYVYAN TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202664
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Terrace and Attached Front Area Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 2-20, VYVYAN TERRACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202664
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Terrace and Attached Front Area Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 2-20, VYVYAN TERRACE
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:
- TERRACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 2-20, VYVYAN TERRACE
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 57209 73387
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW VYVYAN TERRACE, Clifton 901-1/8/1086 (South East side) 08/01/59 Nos.2-20 (Consecutive) Terrace and attached front area railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: VYVYAN TERRACE Nos.2-20 (Consecutive))
GV II*
Terrace of 19 houses. 1832-46. Probably by RS Pope. Limestone ashlar with lateral stacks, and slate double-pile and mansard roofs. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. A fine composed terrace has 9-window end and 12-window middle sections stepped forward, with 12-window linking sections; banded ground floor with inner doorways, a second-floor frieze and cornice, attic storey to the forward sections and a balustraded mansard between. The middle section has outer houses with giant pilasters, and a centre with recessed upper floors behind a giant Ionic colonnade on plinths linked by balustrades, with stone balconies behind to the second-floor windows. Architraves to doorways, overlights with diagonal bars and 2-leaf 6-panel doors. The end sections like the centre but with attached columns to the middle house and bowed stone balconies, and panelled jambs and lintels to the doors. Linking sections have ground-floor level with the ends, recessed upper floors with first-floor stone loggias with square columns to an entablature, and a balustrade in front of the mansard. Plain ground-floor windows, architraves to the rest, tallest on the first floor, to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane attic windows and casement mansard windows. The rear has large second-floor semicircular-arched 10/12-pane stair lights. Balconies to the first floor with cast-iron brackets and railings with anthemia. Vaulted brick cellars beneath the front pavement. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a semicircular arch, a party wall stone dogleg stair with cast-iron balusters, first-floor rooms linked by folding panelled doors, cornices, marble fireplaces, panelled shutters and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area cast-iron railings and gates. One of the finest of the Regency Clifton terraces, named after the infamous Tory MP Sir Richard Vyvyan. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 255; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 451; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 54; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 160-165).
Listing NGR: ST5720973387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380794
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 451
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 160,165
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 255
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 54
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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