NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1282179
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 14-17 AND ATTACHED AREA RAILINGS, 14-17, PORTLAND SQUARE
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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)
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing