Numbers 41 and 43 and Attached Garden Walls and Piers With Ball Finials
NUMBERS 41 AND 43 AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS WITH BALL FINIALS, 41 AND 43, DOWNLEAZE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206268
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 41 and 43 and Attached Garden Walls and Piers With Ball Finials
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 41 AND 43 AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS WITH BALL FINIALS, 41 AND 43, DOWNLEAZE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206268
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 41 and 43 and Attached Garden Walls and Piers With Ball Finials
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 41 AND 43 AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS WITH BALL FINIALS, 41 AND 43, DOWNLEAZE
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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 41 AND 43 AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS WITH BALL FINIALS, 41 AND 43, DOWNLEAZE
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 56487 75128
Details
BRISTOL
ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park 901-1/31/1797 (North West side) Nos.41 AND 43 and attached garden walls and piers with ball finials
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1896. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked limestone rubble and dressings, tilehanging, brick ridge and diagonally-set lateral stacks and tile hipped and gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. A symmetrical pair with the entrances in the sides, projecting outer gables linked across the ground floor with stone-framed windows. Carved doorcases have terms flanking a mullion overlight and swan's neck pediment, to an elliptical-arched battened 2-leaf door. No.39 has a porte cochere with a hipped roof and Doric columns to the wall between the houses. The gables have bows with 5-light windows and a parapet; 3-light first-floor windows above have small pediments cutting a string, and 4-light second-floor windows with a central king mullion; finials flank a steep, segmental-pedimented gable with a keyed oculus. Between are 3-light ground-floor windows with a balcony above with ball finials; the upper storeys are set back with 3-light windows beneath coved eaves and large 4-light dormers. The lower floors have plate-glass casements with glazing bars above the transoms. The rear elevation has semicircular-arched stair lights and a single-storey service block. INTERIOR: hall screen with stained-glass door and side lights, central hall with elliptical arch to dogleg staircase which has turned balusters and large newels, 5-panel doors, rear kitchens with built-in dressers, fireplaces and cornices. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers with ball finials. Stongly influenced by Norman Shaw's Bedford Park, 1881. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 398).
Listing NGR: ST5648775128
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379517
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 398
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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