17, KING STREET

17, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1282240
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:
17, KING STREET
Statutory Address:
17, KING STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1282240
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
17, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:
17, KING STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
17, KING STREET

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 58781 72689

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre 901-1/16/602 (South side) 08/01/59 No.17 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (South side) Nos.16-20 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Attached house, now public house. c1665, refaced mid C18. Brick facade over a timber-frame, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A truncated gable to the street, the floors marked by moulded bands, parapet with angled outer beams to a central modillion cornice, and the roof gable set back behind. C19 public house front has double panelled doors set between large shop windows with glazing bars, with a right-hand doorway to the upstairs set back, and fascia and cornice. First-floor 9/9-pane sashes, second-floor mullion casements and 2 attic casements, in flush frames. INTERIOR: panelled ground floor with bolection mouldings, moulded beams and continued overmantel and fire surround to the front room with an eared architrave and rocaille carving, and C17 dogleg stair. The gable was set back in a C18 modernisation. Part of a row of framed C17 houses with Nos 16-20 (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 84).

Listing NGR: ST5878672692

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Legacy System number:
379865
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 84

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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