Numbers 20 and 21 and Attached Area Railings and Attached Rear Garden Wall
NUMBERS 20 AND 21 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND ATTACHED REAR GARDEN WALL, 20 AND 21, SOMERSET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208531
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20 and 21 and Attached Area Railings and Attached Rear Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 20 AND 21 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND ATTACHED REAR GARDEN WALL, 20 AND 21, SOMERSET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208531
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 20 and 21 and Attached Area Railings and Attached Rear Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 20 AND 21 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND ATTACHED REAR GARDEN WALL, 20 AND 21, SOMERSET STREET
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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 20 AND 21 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS AND ATTACHED REAR GARDEN WALL, 20 AND 21, SOMERSET STREET
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 58842 73913
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873NE SOMERSET STREET, Kingsdown 901-1/5/1533 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.20 AND 21 and attached area railings and attached rear garden wall (Formerly Listed as: SOMERSET STREET Nos.18-22 (Consecutive) and 22A)
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1770. Stucco and brick with limestone dressings, limestone ashlar rear elevation, brick party wall stacks and a pantile hipped double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. Stucco ground floor, brick above, pilasters to the cornice and parapet. Right-hand doorcase on No.20, central on No.21, with consoles to an open pediment, moulded keyed semicircular arch, fanlight and 6-panel door. No.20 has a ground-floor canted bay with 8/8-pane and flanking 6/6-pane sashes, No.21 has a mid C19 two-storey extension to the side, and has windows with flat surrounds and aprons; upper windows have cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs and 6/6-pane sashes. The extension is 2 storeys; 3-window range, flat architraves to plate-glass sashes with horizontal bars, sill bands, first-floor lintel band, frieze and cornce. Rear elevation each has a full-height canted bay, separated by a lead hopper and down pipe. INTERIOR: No.20, hall divided by fluted pilasters to a semicircular arch, with wainscot and dado; a central lateral dogleg stair with ramped rail, column-on-vase balusters and column newels; built-in kitchen dresser in the basement to the rear; 4-panelled shutters and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area railings to No.21, and attached wrought-iron railings with urn finials to the doorway of No.20; attached brick garden wall to the rear.
Listing NGR: ST5884273913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380573
- 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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