St Vincent's Rocks Hotel and Attached Front Area Walls, Railings and Piers
ST VINCENT'S ROCKS HOTEL AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, 1, SION HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282120
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- St Vincent's Rocks Hotel and Attached Front Area Walls, Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- ST VINCENT'S ROCKS HOTEL AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, 1, SION HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282120
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- St Vincent's Rocks Hotel and Attached Front Area Walls, Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST VINCENT'S ROCKS HOTEL AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, 1, SION HILL
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.
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:
- ST VINCENT'S ROCKS HOTEL AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS, RAILINGS AND PIERS, 1, SION HILL
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 56654 72988
Details
BRISTOL
ST5672NE SION HILL, Clifton 901-1/13/1016 (East side) 08/01/59 No.1 St Vincent's Rocks Hotel and attached front area walls, railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: SION HILL No.1 St Vincent's Rocks Hotel)
GV II
House, now hotel. c1800. Converted late C19 by JH Hirst. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 4 storeys and basement; 7-window range. A near-symmetrical front has canted full-height bays, the right-hand one projecting further than the left, to a cornice and parapet. Central raised semicircular-arched doorway has a plate-glass fanlight, and inner C20 half-glazed doors. Horned plate-glass sashes, with blind boxes to the ground floor, and 3 basement windows, the outer ones blind. Mid C19 full-width first-floor tented timber balcony has cast-iron brackets and wrought-iron railings with lattice sections separated by panels with anthemia in arched tops, and cobweb spandrels. To the rear a late C19 long brick extension raised on open arches. INTERIOR: much altered; rear open dogleg stair with cast-iron stick balusters and newels, and a good ramped rail with inlaid strip and star to the bottom wreath. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached walls and capped outer piers, central double stairs curve in to a flight to the doorway, and spear-headed wrought-iron railings. Linked internally with the adjoining house, now hotel annex (qv). Forms part of a continuous uphill row of houses dating from c1780-1800 with many variations, the use of tall bay windows and fine balconies being a particularly distinctive element. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 62).
Listing NGR: ST5665472988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 62
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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