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ENGINEER'S HOUSE

ENGINEER'S HOUSE, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1282070
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: ENGINEER'S HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ENGINEER'S HOUSE, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1282070
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: ENGINEER'S HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ENGINEER'S HOUSE, THE PROMENADE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ENGINEER'S HOUSE, THE PROMENADE

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 56616 73491

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673SE THE PROMENADE, Clifton 901-1/7/1073 (East side) 08/01/59 Engineer's House

GV II*

Formerly known as: Camp House THE PROMENADE. House, now office. Signed and dated 1831. By Charles Dyer. For Charles Pinney. Limestone ashlar, rendered rear, lateral and ridge stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 6-window range. A symmetrical front has a 1-window right-hand extension; the central 3-window section set forward with clasping pilasters to a cornice, and a parapet pierced by balustrade sections in front of outer attic windows; full-width sill bands and ground-floor impost band. The centre has a full-width 2-storey pedimented portico with 2:1:1:2 columns, Tuscan below Ionic, separated by an entablature, signed on the left end, with a thin string with continuous guttae and balustrades between panelled dies on the first floor. Plain surrounds to central windows, outer tripartite windows, on the first floor with pilaster jambs to pediments and curved stone brackets to balconies, and small attic windows cut through the frieze above; matching 2-storey right-hand block with a bay below the balcony. Horned plate-glass sashes, French windows to left-hand ground-floor and balcony windows. Symmetrical 3-window left return has a central pedimented porch with Doric columns and foliate tympanum; blind windows above with sill band, over lateral stacks. The right-hand return has 2 oriels and a recessed centre with stained-glass window and curved balustrade to a French window. Rendered rear elevation has full-height bays with curved sides to each end. INTERIOR: entrance hall with niches in chamfered corners, axial passage, a left-hand rear 2-storey stair hall with a stone cantilevered open-well stair with cast-iron balusters and anthemia, foliate newels and a curtail to wreathed rail, and panelled wainscotting; central rear dogleg service stair has cast-iron rails; front rooms have good gilded Greek Revival-style cornices; panelled shutters and reveals to 6-panel doors; vaulted brick basement. Part of an outstanding group of houses including Taylor Maxwell House (qv), Promenade House (qv) and Trafalgar House (qv) extending NW from Litfield House, Litfield Place (qv). HISTORICAL NOTE: first owned by Charles Pinney, Mayor during the Reform Bill riots of 1831, who reportedly had metal shutters fitted to the upstairs rooms. (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 142; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 267).

Listing NGR: ST5661673491

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

Legacy System number:: 380697
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 267
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 142

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