Numbers 1 to 17 and Attached Rubble Garden Walls and Piers
2, GORDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282223
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 17 and Attached Rubble Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- 2, GORDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282223
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 17 and Attached Rubble Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, GORDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 17 AND ATTACHED RUBBLE GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 1-17, MERIDIAN PLACE
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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:
- 2, GORDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 17 AND ATTACHED RUBBLE GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, 1-17, MERIDIAN PLACE
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 57628 73166
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SE MERIDIAN PLACE, Clifton 901-1/9/890 (North West side) 04/03/77 Nos.1-17 (Consecutive) and attached rear rubble garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: MERIDIAN PLACE (North West side) Nos.1-17 (Consecutive))
GV II
Includes: No.2 GORDON ROAD Clifton. Terrace of 17 houses. c1827. Possibly by James Foster. Stucco with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and slate and pantile mansard roofs. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A stepped terrace articulated by giant pilasters to a moulded coping, ramped up the slope; Nos 16 & 17 linked by a full-width pediment, with a recessed party wall strip. Left-hand semicircular-arched doorways, Nos 1 & 17 in the returns, have moulded, keyed archivolts, plate-glass fanlights and 6-panel doors. Single 8/8-pane ground-floor sashes, 6/6-pane second-floor sashes and C20 dormers. Nos 1, 2 & 13-15 have tented timber balconies with pointed-arched railings with quatrefoils, no tent to No.1. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble wall to rear of No.1 has a 2-centred arched brick doorway with key and impost blocks; attached brick front garden walls and capped piers to Nos 11-16. The end pediment links the terrace with the similar termination of Nos 1-14 Frederick Place (qv), on the opposite corner, and was possibly also developed by Benjamin Tucker. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 228; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 139).
Listing NGR: ST5762873166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 139
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 228
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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