NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS

NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 14-17, PORTLAND SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1282179
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 14-17, PORTLAND SQUARE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1282179
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 14-17, PORTLAND SQUARE

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:: NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 14-17, PORTLAND 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 59480 73705

Details

BRISTOL

ST5973NW PORTLAND SQUARE, St Paul 901-1/6/1902 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.14-17 (Consecutive) and attached area railings (Formerly Listed as: PORTLAND SQUARE (East side) Nos.14-17 (Consecutive))

GV I

Terrace of 4 houses. 1789-1820. By Daniel Hague. Limestone ashlar, brick stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 3-window range. Half of a formal composition interrupted by St Paul's Church (qv), the end houses project slightly and No.14 has an ashlar attic; rusticated ground-floor, pilasters from the first-floor plat band to a modillion cornice and parapet. Right-hand doorcases have Ionic columns and modillion pediments, batswing fanlights and 6-panel doors; rusticated voussoirs to the ground-floor windows and plain voussoirs above, with 6/6-pane sashes. The left gable has a central semicircular-arched stair window and 3 lunettes above the cornice. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt behind the facade. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spear railings to basement areas. Forms part of Bristol's '...most complete and beautiful square' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 209; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 220; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 53).

Listing NGR: ST5948273713

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Legacy System number:: 380186
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dening, C F W , The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol, (1923), 53
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 209
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 220

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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.