NUMBERS 14 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS

NUMBERS 14 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 14-34, WEST MALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219389
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 14 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 14 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 14-34, WEST MALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1219389
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 14 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 14 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 14-34, WEST MALL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 14 TO 34 (CONSECUTIVE AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 14-34, WEST MALL

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 56754 73040

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673SE WEST MALL, Clifton 901-1/7/1092 (North West side) 08/01/59 Nos.14-34 (Consecutive) and attached front basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST MALL Nos.14-34 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Terrace of 20 houses. c1843. By T Foster and W Oakley. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and slate and pantile double-pile roofs. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style with Greek Revival details. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range, No.34 has 1 window to the left. A stepped terrace has a banded ground floor to a plat band, giant pilasters to a frieze and overlapping cornice, and coped attic storey. Right-hand doorways have battered recessed surrounds and raised lintels to overlights with 3 round and margin panes, and 8-panel doors with roundels, Nos 14-22 the upper 6 panels are raised. No.4 has 1 window to the left of the doorway, and paired pilasters to the end. 6/6-pane sashes and 3/6-panes to the attic. Good contemporary stone first-floor balconies on cast-iron brackets have cast-iron pedimented lattice sections separated by panels with anthemion arched tops, cobweb spandrels and arrow braces. Steps down to basement areas, basement doors, and service cellars accessed though pavement. Rear elevations have large lunette stair windows. INTERIOR: entrance hall divided by a flat arch with guilloche side panels, from an open stone dogleg stair with decorated cast-iron balusters and wreathed rail, the upper numbers have timber stairs; stone basement stair flight with wrought-iron railings; first-floor front room has good anthemion cornices and marble fire surround with attached Ionic columns; 6-panel doors and panelled shutters; basement rooms have semicircular-arched recesses and an arched passage to the cellars, which extend out under the road. The lower houses were supplied from one of the Clifton springs, and have stone sinks in the basements with hand pumps. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron bud-headed basement area railings and gates. Forms an important group with the matching Nos 1-31 Caledonia Place (qv) opposite, and with Nos 1-14 West Mall (qv) and Nos 32-44 Caledonia Place (qv) is a very good, and for Clifton uniquely formal, planned square. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 229).

Listing NGR: ST5675473040

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Legacy System number:: 380823
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 229

Legal

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