NUMBERS 56-78 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIER

NUMBERS 56-78 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIER, KINGSDOWN PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209922
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 56-78 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIER
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 56-78 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIER, KINGSDOWN PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209922
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 56-78 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIER
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 56-78 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIER, KINGSDOWN PARADE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 56-78 (EVEN) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND PIER, KINGSDOWN PARADE

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District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST5881273954

Details

ST5873NE 901-1/5/1504 06/02/76

BRISTOL KINGSDOWN PARADE, Kingsdown (South East side) Nos.56-78 (Even) and attached front area railings and pier (Formerly Listed as: KINGSDOWN PARADE South East side) Nos.48 AND 50-84 (Even))

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Terrace of 12 houses. c1792. Possibly by William Paty. Brick, some stucco, with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and pantile hipped mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. Handed pairs, except for No.56 whose entrance is in the right return; pilasters to a frieze and cornice and parapet, and coped central party walls; outer doorways have pilasters and imposts, consoles to pediments, moulded semicircular keyed arches, fanlights and 6-panel doors. Cambered heads with 3-stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane rectangular sashes, smaller on the second floor. The right return to No.56 has a 1-window range with a semicircular-arched stair window above the door. Canted bays and semicircular-arched stair windows to the rear elevations. INTERIOR: No.52, entrance hall divided by a semicircular arch, with modillion cornice, and a rear dogleg stair with stick balusters, column newels and cross-banded ramped rail; ground-floor rooms divided by an elliptical arch with panelled reveals and doors; good fluted front shutters; cornices, marble fireplaces with Duck's Nest grates, built-in kitchen dresser in the basement, 6-panel doors; a boxed gutter from the front parapet through the attic to the rear. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron front area railings and gates with urn finials curve up Pennant steps to the entrances. Planned as part of a uniform development with Nos 48-52 Kingsdown Parade (qv). Developed by James Weekes and Charles Lockier to a design similar to contemporary ones by William Paty. The plots were sold to separate builders, and interior details were completed by the clients. The full terrace extends to No.86 (qv), and is interrupted by the near-contemporary but symmetrical No.80 (qv). (Mellor P: A Kingsdown Community: Bristol: 1987-).

Listing NGR: ST5881273954

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Mellor, P, A Kingsdown Community, (1985)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.