Chesterfield and Attached Front Garden Wall
CHESTERFIELD AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, 3, CLIFTON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280512
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Chesterfield and Attached Front Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTERFIELD AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, 3, CLIFTON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280512
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chesterfield and Attached Front Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTERFIELD AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, 3, CLIFTON HILL
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:
- CHESTERFIELD AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALL, 3, CLIFTON HILL
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:
- ST5732272920
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW CLIFTON HILL, Clifton
901-1/14/775 (North side)
08/01/59 No.3
Chesterfield and attached front
garden wall
(Formerly Listed as:
CLIFTON HILL
(North side)
No.3
Chesterfield)
GV II*
Formerly known as: No.3 Clifton Court CLIFTON GREEN Clifton.
House, now nursing home. 1742. Possibly by William Halfpenny.
Limestone ashlar and copper-slag blocks, gable stacks and a
slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Palladian style. 2
storeys, attic and basement; 11-window range.
A fine symmetrical front has a pedimented 3-window centre
broken forward, and lower 3-window side wings; the centre has
a banded ground floor and 4 Ionic pilasters above to a
pulvinated frieze. Outer corners have rusticated ground-floor
quoin strips, quoins above, and parapet. Later pedimented
Tuscan porch to a 2-leaf door.
The centre has recessed ground-floor windows with cambered
heads, middle segmental and flanking plain pediments to the
second floor, with keyed architraves to the outer windows and
sunken panels over the second floor. The wings are set back,
with plain cornice bands and parapets. The right-hand has
enlarged ground-floor windows and blind ones above with keyed
architraves; the left-hand has similar surrounds, and a C19
right-hand doorway, now glazed, with a bracketed pediment.
Plate-glass sashes.
The right return to the main block is of copper-slag blocks
with brick window dressings, the left return is rendered. The
rear has two C19 canted bays.
INTERIOR: a good interior includes an entrance hall divided by
an elliptical arch with fluted pilasters from a central stair
hall, with a left-hand open dogleg stair with column
balusters, a moulded, ramped rail and wide curtail.
Fully-panelled right-hand rooms connected by an arch with
fluted Ionic pilasters, panelled, arched recesses, good marble
fire surrounds with rocaille woodwork, an eared overmantel in
the front room with foliate festoons and bracketed pediment;
doorways with raised pediment, and 4-panel mahogany doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached coursed rubble retaining wall
encloses front garden, with a left-hand blocked
semicircular-arched doorway with Gibbs surround.
A notable early villa development on the hilltop in Clifton,
with a good interior. The use of slag blocks in a polite house
is very uncommon.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 151; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 38).
Listing NGR: ST5732272920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379234
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 151
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 38
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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