Boyce's Buildings

7A and 8, Boyce's Avenue

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219063
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: Boyce's Buildings
Statutory Address:: 7A and 8, Boyce's Avenue

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219063
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: Boyce's Buildings
Statutory Address 1:: 7A and 8, Boyce's Avenue
Statutory Address 2:: Boyce's Buildings, 40-46, Regent Street

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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: 7A and 8, Boyce's Avenue
Statutory Address:: Boyce's Buildings, 40-46, Regent 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 57116 73085

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/04/2020

ST5773SW 901-1/8/968

BRISTOL Clifton REGENT STREET (north east side) Nos.40-46 (Even) Boyce's Buildings

08/01/59

GV II Includes: Nos.7A AND 8 BOYCE'S AVENUE Clifton.

Pair of attached houses, now three. Dated 1763. Probably by Thomas Paty. For Thomas Boyce. Rendered over brick with limestone dressings, party wall and gable stacks and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. Each of three storeys, attic and basement; five-window range. Originally a composed terrace of three houses, the right one demolished. Each has middle three windows broken forward, and pedimented central section to the former central house with a dated monogram. First floor plat and sill bands, cornice and parapet. Gibbs surrounds to openings: doorways have tall keys to a pediment, three-pane overlights and six-panel doors; windows have three stepped keys, to 6/6-pane sashes. The first floor has taller 9/9-pane sashes either side of the middle one, with wrought-iron basket balconies.

Each house subdivided by coped party walls; No.44 has plate-glass sashes. Two rear semicircular-arched stair lights with interlacing glazing bars. INTERIOR: No.40 includes a rebuilt rear central open-well stair; few surviving period details. Important as the first Clifton terrace. The end house was demolished in 1872. Listing NGR: ST5711673085

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 380334
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 203
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 202

Legal

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