30, CLARE STREET, 49, ST NICHOLAS STREET

30, CLARE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280614
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
30, CLARE STREET, 49, ST NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address:
30, CLARE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1280614
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
30, CLARE STREET, 49, ST NICHOLAS STREET
Statutory Address 1:
30, CLARE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
49, ST NICHOLAS 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
30, CLARE STREET
Statutory Address:
49, ST NICHOLAS 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 58748 72941

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/549 (South East side) 04/03/77 No.30

GV II

Includes: No.49 ST NICHOLAS STREET Centre. Office. c1920. Limestone ashlar, rendered sides, lateral stack and a slate mansard roof. Single-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical front, with long returns each side, has pilasters to the corners and centre, a plinth, banded below a modillion cornice, pilasters to the attic storey with a cornice set forward to the pilasters, and a capped parapet. Openings set in 2-storey keyed semicircular arches with coved surrounds: an architrave and cornice to the ground floor, a left-hand doorway with double half-glazed bronze doors, and right-hand window. First-floor windows have raised aprons and semicircular-arched windows, and the attic has architraves with console cornices. Pilasters have cartouches below the cornice, and wreaths with ribbons to the attic; double casement dormers and right-hand stack. The returns have 8-window ranges, windows with Corinthian pilasters flanking architraves to cornices, rusticated ground floor to the right-hand side and banded to the left. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. Included for group value. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 19).

Listing NGR: ST5874872941

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
379196
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 19

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 30, CLARE STREET, 49, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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