Numbers 28 and 30 and Attached Piers and Front Garden Walls

NUMBERS 28 AND 30 AND ATTACHED PIERS AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, DOWNLEAZE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280329
Date first listed:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 28 and 30 and Attached Piers and Front Garden Walls
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 28 AND 30 AND ATTACHED PIERS AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, DOWNLEAZE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280329
Date first listed:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 28 and 30 and Attached Piers and Front Garden Walls
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 28 AND 30 AND ATTACHED PIERS AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, DOWNLEAZE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 28 AND 30 AND ATTACHED PIERS AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, DOWNLEAZE

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 56552 75117

Details

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park 901-1/31/1790 (South East side) Nos.28 AND 30 and attached piers and front garden walls

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Dated 1896. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked limestone rubble and dressings, tile-hung second floor, brick ridge and diagonally-set gable stacks and tile hip and gable roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. A symmetrical pair with the entrances in the sides, projecting outer gables, and stone-framed ground- and first-floor windows. Carved doorcases have winged cupid corbels to fluted half pilasters, 3 Tudor-arched overlights and a dentil cornice, and an elliptical-arched battened 2-leaf door. Ground-floor mullion and transom windows, first-floor windows have plate-glass casements with glazing bars above the transoms, and second-floor timber windows project slightly on small brackets. The gables have 2-storey canted bays with tiled panels and 2-light ground- and first-floor windows below the overhanging tile-hung gable, which has 3-light windows and a jettied half-timbered apex. Between the gables the ground floor is flush with the outer gables with a tiled lean-to roof and 3-light windows, 2-light first-floor windows and 3-light eaves dormers with half-timbered gables. The rear elevation is flat with semicircular-arched stair lights and a single-storey service block. INTERIOR: hall screen with stained-glass door and side windows, a black and white tiled hall, elliptical arch to a dogleg stair with turned balusters and large turned newels, 5-panel doors, cornices and fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden rubble walls and piers with domed caps. Strongly influencd by Norman Shaw's Bedford Park, 1881. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 396).

Listing NGR: ST5655275117

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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 396

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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