Tellisford House and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates Trinmore and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
TELLISFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205772
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Tellisford House and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates Trinmore and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- TELLISFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205772
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Tellisford House and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates Trinmore and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- TELLISFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
- Statutory Address 2:
- TRINMORE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
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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:
- TELLISFORD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
- Statutory Address:
- TRINMORE AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, CLIFTON DOWN
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 56645 73938
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673NE CLIFTON DOWN, Clifton 901-1/1/758 (North East side) 04/03/77 Tellisford House and Trinmore and attached front garden walls, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN Trinmore and Tellisford)
GV II
Pair of attached houses. 1853. Built by William Baker. Squared sandstone rubble with limestone dressings, party wall and gable stacks and double-pile slate cross-gabled roof with bands of hexagonal slates. Double-depth plan. Jacobethan style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. A broadly symmetrical pair has recessed end entrance sections with kneelers to ogee gables and finials, and a heavy full-width ground-floor cornice. Entrances have rusticated square piers, with blocked columns set inside them to a raised lintel on carved brackets, and faceted panels each side; tiled lobbies have arched side windows with stained-glass margin panes, to doorways with Ionic 3/4 terms to semicircular arches, 5-light fanlights and 4-panel doors with lozenges in the lower ones. Mullion windows have surrounds with decorative curved sections to top, sides and bottom: ground-floor windows with transoms, those on the first floor with oval panels to aprons and raised cornices. Tellisford has a 3-window inner range including a central 2-storey, 3-light bow topped by a large curved parapet with a carved oval panel; Trinmore has a 2-window range, the left-hand windows in a large ogee gable set forward, with 3-light ground- and first-floor windows and a stone balcony on the first floor. The second-floor windows form half dormers with cornices and swan's neck pediments, breaking through a parapet with gableted dies. 2/2-pane sashes. The left return has a rear 4-storey square tower with machicolated overhanging crenellated parapet, and a first-floor canted oriel with moulded base and weathered top, and stained glass margin panes. The right return has a wide first-floor 6-light mullion window, and rear gable with an oculus. Rear has projecting wings with 2-storey canted ashlar bays, and keyed oculi. Stacks have raised panels separated by faceted squares. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached squared, coursed rubble walls extend approx 80m round the front garden, battered to the base with bracketed coping, ashlar piers with finials, and timber gates with decorative cast-iron panels. Part of a group of 4 imposing houses facing the Downs. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 279).
Listing NGR: ST5664573938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 279
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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