Numbers 1 to 8 and Attached Basement and Front Area Railings
2, PORTLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280528
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 8 and Attached Basement and Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 2, PORTLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280528
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 8 and Attached Basement and Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 1-8, RODNEY PLACE
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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.
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:
- 2, PORTLAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 1-8, RODNEY 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 57034 73122
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW CLIFTON DOWN ROAD, Clifton 901-1/8/759 (West side) 08/01/59 Rodney Place, Nos.1-8 (Cons) and attached basement and front area railings (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON DOWN ROAD (West side) Rodney Place, Nos.1-9 (Consec))
GV II
Includes: No.2 PORTLAND STREET. Terrace of 9 houses. 1782-85. Probably by William Paty. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and pantile and slate mansard roofs. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. Terrace divided by pilasters to a cornice and parapet, plat and first-floor sill bands. Each house has a ground floor with a rusticated 3-window range, and plain 2-window range containing the doorways, to alternate sides: doorways have Doric columns, triglyphs to pediments, fanlights and 6-panel doors. 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes to second floor, and varied dormers. No.1 has a late C19 doorway in the right return with large volute consoles to a modillion canopy, overlight and 2-panel door, with an extension behind. Wrought-iron basket balconies to first-floor of No.3. No.4 has a late C19 single-storey porch with a semicircular-arched doorway, a right-hand stone oriel with plain transoms and mullions, and a raised mansard. No.8 has a narrow mid C19 doorway with console cornice and a left-hand tripartite ground-floor window. INTERIOR: rear central stone open dogleg stairs with stick and cast-iron balusters and a wreathed rail; winder attic stairs; panelled reveals to doors with 6 raised panels, panelled shutters, fireplaces, cornices and dados. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron railings with urn finials to basement areas, and to raised flagged front areas of Nos 6, 7 & 8. Nos 1-5 are set back behind a curved drive. One of the first Clifton Terraces after Boyce's Buildings (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 217; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 120).
Listing NGR: ST5703473122
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379227
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 120
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 217
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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