Clifton Down Station Steam Tavern Public House and Attached Screen Walls
CLIFTON DOWN STATION, WHITELADIES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202700
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton Down Station Steam Tavern Public House and Attached Screen Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFTON DOWN STATION, WHITELADIES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202700
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton Down Station Steam Tavern Public House and Attached Screen Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFTON DOWN STATION, WHITELADIES ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- STEAM TAVERN PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, WHITELADIES ROAD
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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:
- CLIFTON DOWN STATION, WHITELADIES ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- STEAM TAVERN PUBLIC HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, WHITELADIES ROAD
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 57628 74134
Details
BRISTOL
ST5774 WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/34/1131 (West side) Clifton Down Station, Steam Tavern Public House and attached screen walls
II
Railway station, now station and public house. Opened 1874, converted 1970s. Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, lateral and ridge stacks and a tiled hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Tudor Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys; 3-window range, with single-storey side blocks either side. Central booking office has rock-faced quoins, impost band and sill band; corbel table below a weathered parapet; three 2-centre arches have splayed reveals and C20 glazing and door, and large second-floor cross windows with trefoil arches in flat heads. The roof has lead finials. End-gabled block each end have 5 single and paired flat-headed windows with glazing bars, the E block has a parapeted end section, the W block has a rounded corner beneath a moulded, corbelled corner. The rear elevation is articulated into rectangular recessed bays with corbel tables, with blocked openings to the backs of the station blocks. INTERIOR: converted to a public house. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: screen wall, articulated into bays as the station buildings, extends from the station to the Whiteladies Road bridge (not included). Built as the terminus of the Clifton Extension Railway, it became a through station with the opening of the Clifton Down tunnel in 1885. Formerly with good glazed canopies on cast-iron posts, which extended on both sides supported by the screen walls (qv). (Oakely M: Bristol Suburban: Temple Meads, Local Stations etc: Bristol: 1990-: 42).
Listing NGR: ST5762874134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380884
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oakley, M, Bristol Suburban in Temple Meads Local Stations etc, (1990), 42
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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