28, CLARE STREET, 14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET

14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280602
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
28, CLARE STREET, 14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
Statutory Address:
14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280602
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
28, CLARE STREET, 14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
Statutory Address 1:
14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
Statutory Address 2:
28, CLARE STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET
Statutory Address:
28, CLARE STREET

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 58728 72937

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/548 (South East side) 04/03/77 No.28

GV II

Includes: No.14 ST STEPHEN'S STREET Centre. Bank, now offices. 1883. By Henry Crisp. Limestone ashlar with ashlar lateral stacks and leaded roof. Single-depth plan. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A corner site with 2 window canted corner with the entrance, and a 5-window left-hand return; articulated by Corinthian pilasters, with foliate panels, to each floor, with entablature and cornices set forward to the pilasters. Full-height ground-floor openings have richly moulded, splayed reveals and spandrels, with fluted, carved columns set in the jambs, and cartouche keys: semicircular-arched to the canted sections and at each end, wide elliptical-arched between with 2 mullions as the jambs, and carved figures above the transoms. The entrance has a flat-headed doorway within the arch with a moulded architrave, a panel of bayleaf above to a segmental pediment with cartouche, and plate-glass fanlight. First- and second-floor windows have recessed panelled mullions and entablatures to windows above semicircular-arched ground-floor openings, and tripartite windows over the elliptical-arched ones with panelled mullions. The 2-window left-hand section of the return has a wide elliptical carriage arch with wrought-iron gates, and semicircular-arched windows above. Dormers have foliate-panelled Corinthian pilaster jambs to pediments, segmental to the corner dormers and end ones with finials, acroteria to the rest, and balusters between. Plate-glass sashes. Tall stacks flank the first left-hand dormer, with pilasters and cornice. INTERIOR: largely refurbished late C20. Richly decorated in an eclectic manner, notable for the full-height glazing between the cornices. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 389).

Listing NGR: ST5872872937

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Legacy System number:
379195
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 389

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of 28, CLARE STREET, 14, ST STEPHEN'S STREET

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