Cornwallis House
CORNWALLIS HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207474
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Cornwallis House
- Statutory Address:
- CORNWALLIS HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207474
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cornwallis House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNWALLIS HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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:
- CORNWALLIS HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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 57024 72867
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW CORNWALLIS GROVE, Clifton 901-1/14/842 (South side) 04/03/77 Cornwallis House (Formerly Listed as: CORNWALLIS GROVE La Retraite (Cornwallis House))
GV II
House, now flats. c1794, extended c1820. Limestone ashlar and stucco, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys and basement; 11-window range. A symmetrical front has central C18 five-window block with the middle 3 windows broken forward, and 3-window C19 wings set back each side. The piano nobile ground floor has bowed rustication to a plat band, first-floor sill band, cornice, and parapet ramped up over the centre and with balustrades over the windows. A large C19 raised porch has a rusticated basement with 3 semicircular-arched openings, separated by niches below paired Ionic columns to an entablature; flights of steps each side with Pennant dressings have cast-iron railings with diagonal bars. Pennant stair flight to the right-hand wing with wrought-iron railings. Semicircular-arched basement windows; 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes to the second storey. The stucco rear elevation has 1:3:1 C18 middle with quoins and inner pilasters, plat band, first-floor sill band, and cornice, doorway with a console cornice, rectangular fanlight and 6-panel door; windows with architraves, keyed to the centre, to 6/6-pane and 3/3-pane sashes. Projecting ashlar outer blocks have inner semicircular-arched doorways, and ground-floor windows set in elliptical-arched recesses linked by an impost band. INTERIOR: much altered; rear stair hall with a good mid C18 open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters with twisted vases, 3 per tread, and a moulded ramped rail to a wide curtail, second-floor stair with column balusters, and a modillion cornice. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 263).
Listing NGR: ST5702472867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379397
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 263
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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