Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates

NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 3 AND 4, IVYWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208911
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 3 AND 4, IVYWELL ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208911
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 3 and 4 and Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers and Gates
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 3 AND 4, IVYWELL ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 3 AND 4, IVYWELL ROAD

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 56311 74978

Details

BRISTOL

ST5674 IVYWELL ROAD, Sneyd Park 901-1/34/1805 (North East side) 04/03/77 Nos.3 AND 4 and attached front garden walls, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: IVYWELL ROAD Nos.3 AND 4)

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1860. Pennant ashlar with limestone dressings, ashlar ridge and gable stacks and a slate cross-gabled valley roof. Irregular double-depth plan. Gothic Revival style. 3 storeys and basement; 4-window range. A picturesque composition has varied fenestration, mostly with ogee-headed casements, and roofline. No.3 to the right has a projecting gable with a right-hand crenellated tower, with steps and balustrade up to a 2-centre arched doorway with a plain C20 door; above the door is a narrow canted oriel with ogee-headed lights and a stone roof, and a second-storey 3-light mullion and transom window; to the left is a canted 9-light timber oriel with a swept, tiled roof, a 3-light mullion and transom window on the first floor and plain mullion second-floor window. No.4 has a similar doorway in the 2-storey porch below the left end gable; on the front is a wide 2-storey bay with 8-light mullion and transom windows, linked to the front gable of No.3 by a curved continuation of the bay, and with a dormer above. The left rear gable has an octagonal turret; right end has a crenellated porch and railed first-floor parapet. Rear 2-storey oriel. Linked ranges of octagonal stacks with cornices to the rear end gables and front ridge. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden wall has banded rustication and piers with weathered caps, and No.4 has cast-iron spear-headed gates. An exceptionally well-designed and massed composition, the architect unknown but clearly influenced by Ecclesiological architecture of the period. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 287).

Listing NGR: ST5631174978

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Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 287

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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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