Number 17 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Gates and Piers
NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 17, SION HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208177
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Number 17 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Gates and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 17, SION HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03800/30
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208177
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 17 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Gates and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 17, SION HILL
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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:
- NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND PIERS, 17, SION 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 56700 73107
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673SE SION HILL, Clifton 901-1/7/1027 (South East side) 08/01/59 No.17 and attached basement area railings, gates and piers (Formerly Listed as: SION HILL No.17)
GV II
Attached house. c1780. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has pilaster strips to a moulded cornice and parapet; semicircular-arched doorway has attached Doric columns, entablature blocks with triglyphs, open modillion pediment, blocked fanlight and 6-panel door, the upper 4 raised with cut-out corners. 8/8-pane sashes, 4/8-panes on the second floor, with a central semicircular-arched 4/8-pane stair window, with timber-lined reveals. Rear elevation has a left-hand full-height canted bay. INTERIOR: full-height central stairwell to the front, with an open dogleg stair with stick balusters, column newels, ramped and wreathed rail, and curved brackets, divided from the central hall by an elliptical arch; reeded architraves with corner roundels to 6-panel doors, reeded marble fire surrounds with corner roundels, panelled shutters and cornices with vine leaves; elliptical-arched recesses to principal rooms. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron spear-headed front area gates and railings with urn finials and capped corner piers, and left-hand steps down to basement entrance. Part of a terrace with Nos 16-19 (qv), connected by a continuous cornice.
Listing NGR: ST5670073107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380542
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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