Numbers 23,24 and 25 and Attached Basement Area Railings
NUMBERS 23,24 AND 25 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 23,24 AND 25, SOMERSET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208550
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 23,24 and 25 and Attached Basement Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 23,24 AND 25 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 23,24 AND 25, SOMERSET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208550
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 23,24 and 25 and Attached Basement Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 23,24 AND 25 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 23,24 AND 25, 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 23,24 AND 25 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 23,24 AND 25, 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 58865 73932
Details
BRISTOL
ST315874 SOMERSET STREET, Kingsdown 901-1/35/1535 (South East side) 08/01/59 Nos.23, 24 AND 25 and attached basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: SOMERSET STREET (South West side) Nos.23 AND 24) (Formerly Listed as: SOMERSET STREET No.25)
GV II
3 attached houses. c1780. Brick with limestone dressings, ashlar rear elevation, and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys and basement, 2 storey side blocks; each of 4-window range. Nos 24 & 25 are a near-symmetrical handed pair with a linking block, No.23 to the right matches without the side block. Pilasters to a cornice and parapet. Pedimented doorcases on narrow brackets, to the right on Nos 23 & 25, and left of No.24, which has a rectangular overlight with decorative glazing bars, and 6-panel doors. Wide relieving arches over canted 3-light ground-floor bays, 2 storeys on No.25, with strings, sill bands and moulded copings; 9/9-pane sashes on No.25, 6/6-panes the rest. Cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes above the doorway of No.25. Full-height 3-light canted bays to the rear, entrance block to No.24 with semicircular-arched doorway to basement below a tripartite window and paired segmental-headed first-floor windows. Segmental-arched entrance and steps down to basement of No.25. INTERIOR: No.25, hall divided from the central stair well by a moulded semicircular arch with panelled reveals; a semicircular arch to the right-hand front room, which is one room deep; large stair-well with a good open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, column newels and a wreathed rail, with wainscotting; front bay has sash shutters, folding 2-panel shutters to the rear; 6-panel doors, wainscotting to a dado; good modillion cornice and ceiling rose and cast-iron grate with brass feet and replacement marble fireplace to the front ground-floor room. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron area railings curve up steps to the front doors. No.25 was listed 04.03.77. (Mellor P: A Kingsdown Collection: Bristol: 1987-).
Listing NGR: ST5886573932
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380575
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mellor, P, A Kingsdown Collection, (1987)
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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