South Parade (Terrace) And Attached Front Area Railings

SOUTH PARADE (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 47-71, OAKFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282191
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
South Parade (Terrace) And Attached Front Area Railings
Statutory Address:
SOUTH PARADE (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 47-71, OAKFIELD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282191
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
South Parade (Terrace) And Attached Front Area Railings
Statutory Address 1:
SOUTH PARADE (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 47-71, OAKFIELD ROAD

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
SOUTH PARADE (TERRACE) AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 47-71, OAKFIELD ROAD

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 57742 73836

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773NE OAKFIELD ROAD, Clifton 901-1/3/902 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.47-71 (Odd) South Parade (terrace) and attached front area railings (Formerly Listed as: OAKFIELD ROAD (North side) Nos.47-71 (Odd) South Parade)

GV II

Terrace of 13 houses. c1840. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. A formal terrace with projecting end and 3 central houses, the right-hand pair now demolished. Rusticated ground-floor to a plat band, second-floor sill band, bracketed cornice and coped attic. Steps up to right-hand doorways have recessed jambs, imposts with guttae and brackets above, plate-glass overlights and 6-panel doors. Tripartite ground-floor windows have 2/2-pane sashes, architraves to upper windows with 6/6-pane sashes, and 3/3-panes in the attic; No.47 has 2 ground-floor sashes. A full-width tented slate balcony on cast-iron brackets with Greek Revival decoration. At the left end is a 2-storey block containing a doorway with fat Greek Doric columns to an entablature, central side 10/10-pane sash flanked by blind windows, and a first-floor with 3/4 Ionic columns on pedestals to a tripartite front window and three 8/8-pane side sashes. INTERIOR: elliptical hall arch and side dogleg stair, shutters and panelled doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area railings. A late formal terrace which shares decorative details with Melrose Place (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 254).

Listing NGR: ST5774273836

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Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 254

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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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