Numbers 38 and 39 and Attached Front Area Railings, Rear Garden Walls and Piers
NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, REAR GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, CANYNGE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204964
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 and 39 and Attached Front Area Railings, Rear Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, REAR GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, CANYNGE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204964
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 38 and 39 and Attached Front Area Railings, Rear Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, REAR GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, CANYNGE SQUARE
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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:
- NUMBERS 38 AND 39 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, REAR GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 38 AND 39, CANYNGE 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 56845 73546
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673NE CANYNGE SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/1/731 (South West side) 04/03/77 Nos.38 AND 39 and attached front area railings, rear garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: CANYNGE SQUARE Nos.34-43 (Consecutive))
GV II
Pair of attached houses. Dated 1840 in the deeds. By Charles Underwood. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and slate and pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A near-symmetrical elevation has shallow projecting parapeted wings, articulated on the ground floor by 3 pilasters, closer together to the inside doorways, to a moulded band; overhanging eaves between with paired brackets. Left-hand full-height extension set back. Doorways have rectangular overlights with margin panes and 8-panel doors. Upper floors of the wings have semicircular-arched recesses with second-floor lunettes; 6/6-pane sashes, 3/6-panes to the second floor. Rear elevation is a 5-window range, 2:3 windows with a full-height extension to No.39, with a banded, ashlar ground floor, and a wide second-floor moulded band. Raised surrounds to ground-floor windows with incised jambs, architraves above with raised first-floor cornices, and eared architraves to the second floor. First-floor balconies with moulded cast-iron railings and fluted stone brackets. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed front area railings and gates between the wings, and red sandstone rubble walls and Pennant-capped piers to rear garden. (Pollack A: Canynge Square: Bristol: 1986-).
Listing NGR: ST5684573546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pollack, A, Canynge Square, (1986)
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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