Numbers 1 to 14 (Consecutive) Royal Promenade and Attached Front Basement Railings
NUMBERS 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) ROYAL PROMENADE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1-14, VICTORIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218827
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 14 (Consecutive) Royal Promenade and Attached Front Basement Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) ROYAL PROMENADE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1-14, VICTORIA SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218827
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 14 (Consecutive) Royal Promenade and Attached Front Basement Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) ROYAL PROMENADE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1-14, VICTORIA SQUARE
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:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 14 (CONSECUTIVE) ROYAL PROMENADE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1-14, VICTORIA SQUARE
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 57196 73146
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW VICTORIA SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/8/1079 (North West side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-14 (Consecutive) Royal Promenade and attached front basement railings
GV II*
Terrace of 14 houses. 1845-53. By J Marmont. Limestone ashlar with lateral and party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A composed 'palace front' terrace has raised, projecting end and middle 6 houses, the middle 4 breaking forward again, with clasping rusticated pilasters to the corners to a deep bracketed cornice, and moulded coped attic. Banded ground floor to a cornice and continuous first-floor stone balcony on large scrolled brackets with a pierced balustrade, ground- and first-floor sill bands and second-floor plat band. Right-hand semicircular-arched doorways with eared architraves and large keys, to fanlights and 4-panel doors with roundels. Semicircular-arched ground-floor windows have shouldered architraves with faceted keys, set in raised panels, with aprons. Architraves to upper windows, set in raised panels with aprons on second floor; those in the central section have first-floor console dentil cornices, and second-floor semicircular heads with ears and shoulders with aprons; 2/2-pane sashes. The attic has a continuous semicircular-arched arcade with imposts, blind except for 3-light outer windows to each house. The middle section has a taller attic with windows set in recesses, 5 each side of a large central heraldic panel with lion and unicorn flanking a shield. The end houses have entrances in the returns: No.1 has a single-storey porch with a semicircular-arched doorway, projecting jambs and parapet, and 3-window range to the side, all blind; No.14 has a central 2-storey porch, windows as the front, with a balcony to the left-hand side, and blind attic arcade. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area cast-iron balustrade. An advanced terrace design contemporary with Vyvian Terrace, but brought much more together to form the effect of a single palatial edifice. Well situated to the side of the square with a deep flagged pavement in front. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 260; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 51; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 166).
Listing NGR: ST5719673146
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380765
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 166
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 260
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 51
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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