Numbers 1 to 8 and Attached Railings and Gates
NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 1-8, BERKELEY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281359
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 8 and Attached Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 1-8, BERKELEY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281359
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 8 and Attached Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 1-8, BERKELEY SQUARE
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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:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 8 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATES, 1-8, BERKELEY SQUARE
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 57966 73040
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SE BERKELEY SQUARE 901-1/9/11 (South West side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-8 (Consecutive) and attached railings and gates
GV II*
Terrace of 8 houses. Begun 1787. By Thomas and William Paty. Limestone ashlar facades and brick with limestone dressings to sides and rear, with party wall stacks and slate mansard roofs. Mid Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A stepped terrace articulated by giant pilasters to a cornice and parapet, rusticated ground floor to a plat band, and a first-floor sill band. Right-hand doorways have Doric pilasters, triglyphs and pediments to fanlights and 6-panel doors. Keys to ground-floor windows, plain above, with 6/6-pane sashes and 3/3 pane sashes on the second floor. Steps down to the basement. No.1 has an entrance in the left return, a 4-window range with a single-storey porch with a 6-panel door and curved steps up. 5 stepped voussoirs to blind windows, glazed to the left-hand side. INTERIOR: good interiors with joinery and plasterwork. Details include an entrance hall with a frieze and cornice and fluted dado, to an elliptical arch with panelled reveals and moulded archivolt; central lateral open-well stone dogleg stair with wrought-iron balusters and a banded, ramped rail, lit by an oval lantern with oculi each side, and plaster decoration; marble fireplaces, panelled shutters and 6-panel mahogany doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front basement area railings and gates. A widely used design of the Patys, and probably the same as those originally on Park Street (qv). Forms the W side of the square, which was planned to be open to the S. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 214; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 214).
Listing NGR: ST5796673040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378956
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 214
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 214
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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