WORCESTER HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS

1-13, WORCESTER TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202713
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: WORCESTER HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: 1-13, WORCESTER TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202713
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: WORCESTER HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: 1-13, WORCESTER TERRACE
Statutory Address 2:: 12, CLIFTON PARK
Statutory Address 3:: WORCESTER HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, WORCESTER TERRACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-13, WORCESTER TERRACE
Statutory Address:: 12, CLIFTON PARK
Statutory Address:: WORCESTER HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, WORCESTER 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 57221 73542

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773NW WORCESTER TERRACE, Clifton 901-1/2/1146 (South side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-13 (Consecutive) Worcester House and attached front area railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: WORCESTER TERRACE Nos.1-13 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Includes: No.12 CLIFTON PARK Clifton. Terrace of 14 houses. 1851-3. By Charles Underwood. Limestone ashlar with party wall and gable end stacks, roof not visible. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range, end houses are each 3 storeys, attic and basement; 7-window range. A fine formal terrace composition, with the end houses facing at right angles to the terrace; the end pairs and middle 4 step forward, articulated 6:6:12:6:6, with a pilastrade to the middle houses and clasping pilasters to the outer pairs. Moulded plat band, first-floor sill band, a frieze of rosettes and a dentil cornice, and attic storey with moulded coping. Inner doorways, paired at the centre, have recessed surrounds, 2-pane overlights and 2-leaf 2-panel doors. The outer pairs have plain ground-floor windows, inner ones have rosettes to recessed lintels; architraves to taller first-floor windows, all with 6/6-pane sashes, and incised surrounds to 3/3-pane attic sashes. A continuous first-floor slate balcony has cast-iron brackets and bowed railings. The end houses have set back side entrances facing the terrace front, with single-storey Ionic distyle porches, No.13 with early C20 glazing, to semicircular-arched doorways with fanlights, and balustrades above. The entablature continues round the end elevations: 3:1:3 windows, the centre projecting with a 3-light bow, and clasping pilasters; tripartite windows between subordinate pilasters on the first floor, and a raised parapet with a balustrade, ground-floor windows recessed. INTERIOR: wide entrance hall with a semicircular arch to a party wall dogleg stair with turned balusters and curtail, some with stone treads; principal rooms linked by folding panelled doors, with Greek Revival cornices and ceilings; panelled reveals to 6-panel doors, panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed cast-iron front area gates and railings, and capped piers to No.13. A complete terrace with much of its iron railing complete, and finely situated on a raised Pennant pavement: a '... very good Late Grecian terrace' (Pevsner). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 255).

Listing NGR: ST5722173542

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Legacy System number:: 380924
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 255

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.