St Nicholas' Almshouses
ST NICHOLAS' ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209635
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas' Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- ST NICHOLAS' ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1209635
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- St Nicholas' Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST NICHOLAS' ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, KING STREET
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.
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:
- ST NICHOLAS' ALMSHOUSES, 1-10, KING 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 58841 72735
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre 901-1/16/596 (North side) 08/01/59 St Nicholas' Almshouses, Nos.1-10 (Consecutive)
GV II*
Almshouses. 1652-6, extended C19, restored 1961 by Donald Install. Render with limestone dressings, brick valley stacks and pantile cross-gabled roof. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 11-window range. A long, regular range of equal gables, with C19 three-gable right return, one set diagonally across the corner. Entrance gable is slightly larger, 5 from the left, with a bolection-moulded surround to an ovolo-moulded timber-frame with heart-shaped chamfer stops, and framed 15-panel door. 3-light ground-floor and 2-light first-floor ovolo-moulded mullion windows have lattice-leaded casements, with semicircular heads above the entrance, and hoodmoulds to the first-floor and three C19 ground-floor windows; small louvred windows in the gables beneath small cornices, that over the entrance with a raised surround. The gutters between the valleys give onto a full-width box gutter. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as being largely remodelled in the restoration. The ceiling of the old chapel above the entrance remains, a plaster barrel vault decorated with figures, coat of arms and strapwork with arabesques and birds, in manner of Vredeman de Vries (Gomme). The foundations of a bastion of the City Wall were revealed during restoration. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 83).
Listing NGR: ST5883172734
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 83
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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