Court House
Court House, 5, Tailor's Court, Bristol
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209571
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address:
- Court House, 5, Tailor's Court, Bristol
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209571
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Court House, 5, Tailor's Court, Bristol
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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:
- Court House, 5, Tailor's Court, Bristol
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 58853 73150
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 March 2023 to amend the address, remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards.
ST5873SE
901-1/11/678
BRISTOL
TAILOR'S COURT (South side)
No.5 Court House
(Formerly listed as No.5 Court House, TAYLOR'S COURT (South side), BRISTOL Centre)
04/03/77
GV
II
House, now offices. Dated 1692, restored mid C20. Roughcast, gable and rear lateral stacks and a slate hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Three storeys; six-window range. A regular front has a doorway four from the left with a good shell hood on acanthus brackets, over a narrow panel inscribed IFM, 1692, and wide two-panel door. Restored cross windows with C20 leaded casements; inserted doorway in the left-hand window. The left return has a two-centred arched second-floor mullion and transom casement window; the rear elevation has a second-floor cross window and small mullion window below it, and the outline of a gabled house.
INTERIOR: entrance hall and left- and right-hand rooms with raised early C18 panelling and fire surrounds, the hall doorway to the right has an open segmental pediment; to the rear a lateral stair with quarter landing, similar stair to second floor to the right, with uncut string, panelled square newels and thick barleysugar balusters, moulded rail, wainscot from the ground floor and dado above; a round-headed niche on the ground floor quarter-landing.
Reported to have been refronted.
Listing NGR: ST5883973140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380656
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 100
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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