Chatford and Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls and Piers Penavon and Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls and Piers

CHATFORD AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, WALLS AND PIERS, THE PROMENADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282071
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
Chatford and Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls and Piers Penavon and Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls and Piers
Statutory Address:
CHATFORD AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, WALLS AND PIERS, THE PROMENADE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282071
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Chatford and Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls and Piers Penavon and Attached Front Basement Railings, Walls and Piers
Statutory Address 1:
CHATFORD AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, WALLS AND PIERS, THE PROMENADE
Statutory Address 2:
PENAVON AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, WALLS AND PIERS, THE PROMENADE

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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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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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Statutory Address:
CHATFORD AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, WALLS AND PIERS, THE PROMENADE
Statutory Address:
PENAVON AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, WALLS AND PIERS, 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 56580 73628

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673 THE PROMENADE, Clifton 901-1/1/1074 (West side) 04/03/77 Penavon and Chatford and attached front basement railings, walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: THE PROMENADE, Clifton Down Penavon and Chatford)

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Pair of attached houses. c1845. Limestone ashlar, rendered sides, lateral and ridge stacks and interlocking tile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. Formerly a symmetrical front with a rusticated ground floor with 1-window end sections set back, rusticated quoins above the ground floor to a panelled second-floor sill band, and bracketed overhanging eaves. Entrances in the returns, to the right a plain open porch with pilasters to an entablature and parapet, to the left an open porch with fluted Ionic columns between pilasters to an entablature, and 2-leaf 6-panel door. End sections have ground floors level with the middle, that to the right with fluted attached Ionic columns set between broad pilasters to an entablature, that to the left with pilasters to a moulded entablature and cornice, with an eared and shouldered architrave to paired windows and a mullion pilaster. Ground-floor windows have recessed architraves, eared and shouldered above with cornices on the outer first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes and second-floor 6-pane casements. 2 first-floor stone balconies to the middle section on cast-iron brackets, with bowed decorative cast-iron railings. 3-window returns, outer ones blind to lateral stacks. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron lattice railings to wide front basement areas; attached front garden walls and 2 pairs of banded piers with central panels cornice and caps. Entrances possibly originally in the end sections, and moved mid C19 to the end porches. Part of a fine group of ashlar villas extending N from Litfield House, Litfield Place (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5658073628

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380699
Legacy System:
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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.

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