Prospect House and Attached Front Basement Balustrades
PROSPECT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT BALUSTRADES, 2, CLIFTON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205847
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House and Attached Front Basement Balustrades
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT BALUSTRADES, 2, CLIFTON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1205847
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect House and Attached Front Basement Balustrades
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPECT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT BALUSTRADES, 2, CLIFTON HILL
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:
- PROSPECT HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT BALUSTRADES, 2, CLIFTON HILL
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 57350 72908
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW CLIFTON HILL, Clifton 901-1/14/772 (North side) 08/01/59 No.2 Prospect House and attached front basement balustrades (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON HILL (North side) No.2 Prospect House)
GV II*
Attached house. 1765. By Thomas Paty. Render with limestone dressings, gable stacks and a pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has the middle 3 windows broken forward, plat band, first-floor sill band, cornice and parapet, reduced for 3 hipped dormers. The doorway has a bracketed pediment, stepped key to the Gibbs surround, narrow rectangular overlight and C20 six-panel door. Gibbs surrounds with stepped keys to the windows and sill blocks to the ground and second floors, one semicircular-arched window over the doorway, 6/6-pane sashes with thick bars to the ground-floor and middle first-floor windows. 6/6-pane sashes to the rear. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area balustrades curve in to the doorway. Similar to Boyce's Buildings (qv), and the adjoining Beresford House (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 203; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 202).
Listing NGR: ST5735072908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379231
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 203
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 202
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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