Numbers 1 to 14 Lansdown Place and Attached Front Area Balustrades and Piers
NUMBERS 1 TO 14 LANSDOWN PLACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA BALUSTRADES AND PIERS, 1-14, VICTORIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218951
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 14 Lansdown Place and Attached Front Area Balustrades and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 14 LANSDOWN PLACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA BALUSTRADES AND PIERS, 1-14, VICTORIA SQUARE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218951
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 14 Lansdown Place and Attached Front Area Balustrades and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 14 LANSDOWN PLACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA BALUSTRADES AND PIERS, 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 LANSDOWN PLACE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA BALUSTRADES AND PIERS, 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 57335 73184
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW VICTORIA SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/8/1078 (North East side) 08/01/59 (Consecutive) Nos.1-14 Lansdown Place and attached front area balustrades and piers
GV II*
Terrace of 14 houses. 1835. By Foster and Son. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A formal terrace with projecting end and middle 4 houses, separated by linking sections without attics; banded ground floor to a frieze and cornice, second-floor sill band between giant pilasters to a frieze and modillion cornice, and coped attic, with balustrades to linking sections. The end houses have pilasters flanking each of 2 window, and entrances in the return elevations. Right-hand doorways have consoles, and margin and overlights to 6-panel doors. Tripartite ground-floor windows, architraves above, and tripartite windows to the first floor of the ends, to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane attic sashes. First-floor continuous balconies with cast-iron brackets and bowed railings, Nos 5 & 9 with tented wrought-iron sections. End elevations are a 4-window range with the middle broken forward, a balustrade to the left return, and central doorways, fenestration as the front; right-hand end has a single-storey porch with pilasters, and a right-hand wing with a ground-floor bow. Rear elevations of the end houses have 2-window ranges, articulated as the front. INTERIOR: large flagged entrance hall with a stone stair which divides below the first floor to the front and back, with cast-iron balusters and a curtail, and a large rear stained-glass window; timber upper stair has stick balusters and a ramped rail; foliate cornices, 6-panel doors and panelled shutters; fireplaces up to the attic. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron front area balustrades, pedimented piers, and railings. The earliest of the big mid C19 Clifton terraces with a development of the Portland Square arrangement of raised end and central sections. Well situated overlooking the Square, with wide flagged pavements.
Listing NGR: ST5733573184
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380774
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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