NUMBER 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES

NUMBER 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 6 AND 7, LITFIELD PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280360
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 6 AND 7, LITFIELD PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280360
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 6 AND 7, LITFIELD PLACE

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:: NUMBER 6 AND 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, GARDEN WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, 6 AND 7, LITFIELD PLACE

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 56697 73386

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673SE LITFIELD PLACE, Clifton 901-1/7/884 (North side) 08/01/59 Nos.6 AND 7 and attached front basement area railings, garden walls, piers and gates (Formerly Listed as: LITFIELD PLACE, Clifton Down Nos.6 AND 7)

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Pair of attached houses, now offices. c1830. Possibly by Charles Dyer. Converted late C20. Limestone ashlar with party wall and lateral stacks, and slate roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. A symmetrical pair has the 4-window central section stepped forward with a banded ground floor, with pilasters above between the windows, stepped at the corners and centre, with blind lattice sections over the windows, cornice and parapet, and reduced sections in front of dormers with iron railings. Lower outer sections have rusticated ground floors, first-floor strings and cornices, and cornices to attic storeys; entrances with paired Tuscan columns to a cornice, with plate-glass overlights and 2-leaf 6-panel doors. Mid C20 single-storey end blocks with thin cornices. Architraves, with console pediments to the windows over the doorways, to 6/6-pane sashes; second-floor outer windows cut through the cornices, with 2/2-pane horned sashes. The centre has a full-width first-floor stone balcony with lattice steel railings, and matching second-floor basket balconies. INTERIOR: entrance lobby, with a rear open-well stair with cast-iron splat balusters, curtail, foliate newel and wreathed rail; basement stair has cast-iron stick balusters with beads; fluted architraves to 6-panel doors, Greek Revival-style plaster mouldings. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron basement area railings; front garden rubble walls, capped, rendered ashlar Pennant piers, spear-headed steel railings and 2-leaf gates. Part of a group of fine villas extending W from Litfield Place; Camp House (qv) also signed by Dyer. (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 142).

Listing NGR: ST5669773386

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Legacy System number:: 379946
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 142

Legal

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