Numbers 1 to 14 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Area Railings
NUMBERS 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 1-14, THE PARAGON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210010
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 14 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 1-14, THE PARAGON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210010
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 14 (Consecutive) And Attached Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 1-14, THE PARAGON
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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 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 1-14, THE PARAGON
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 56786 72755
Details
BRISTOL
ST5672NE THE PARAGON, Clifton 901-1/13/1067 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-14 (Consecutive) and attached front area railings (Formerly Listed as: THE PARAGON Nos.1-15 (Consecutive))
GV II*
Terrace of 14 houses. 1809-14. Built by John Drew. Completed by Steven Hunter, who added the attic storeys. Limestone ashlar, render, party wall stacks and slate mansard roofs. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A sharp convex crescent with entrance from the rear, has pilasters to a cornice, and rusticated ground floor. 6/6-pane sashes, 9/9-panes to the first floor; various dormers, Nos 11-13 have full attic storeys with sunken panels in the frieze. First-floor tented wrought-iron balconies with lattice railings and cast-lead ornament, and coved barge-boards with Vitruvian scroll. A full-width projecting vaulted terrace walk has a rubble front and balustrade. Rendered rear entrance elevation has pilasters to a cornice and parapet, rusticated ground floor, banded to Nos 11-13, shallow first-floor impost and second-floor sill bands. Bowed single-storey right-hand porches have long consoles to a cornice, architraves to bowed 2-leaf 4-panel doors, the bottom pair flush, and a sunken panel above. No.2 has no porch but a semicircular-arched architrave, 5-pane fanlight and 6-panel door. Architraves to full-height first-floor windows with raised cornices, shouldered architraves to the second floor; Nos 11-13 have full attic storeys with windows with small aprons, cornices broken forward and moulded semicircular-arched hoods above; 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane to raking dormers. The left return is 3-window range with rusticated ground floor and coped attic gable, blind ground-floor window, and a single-storey porch with semicircular-arched doorway, 3-pane fanlight and 6-panel door; wrought-iron basket balconies to the first floor. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area railings, wrought-iron spear-headed railings to Nos 2, 3, 6 & 11, cast-iron mid C19 barleysugar railings to the rest. Forms part of the important view of Clifton from the S across the Avon. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 219; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 235).
Listing NGR: ST5679172759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380690
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 219
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 235
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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