Number 2 and Attached Wall and Front Area Railings
NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, DIGHTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282293
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Wall and Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, DIGHTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282293
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Wall and Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, DIGHTON STREET
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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:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED WALL AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, DIGHTON 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 58864 73688
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873NE DIGHTON STREET, Kingsdown 901-1/5/1477 (South side) 04/03/77 No.2 and attached wall and front area railings (Formerly Listed as: DIGHTON STREET No.2)
II
House, now flats. Late C18. For Joseph Harford. Limestone ashlar and squared, coursed Pennant rubble, rendered gable stacks and a slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 9-window range. Built on a slope with the front set back from the basement, symmetrical with 5-window centre and 3-window wings set back, the left one a single storey. Rusticated ground floor has incised voussoirs and a plat band, pilasters from there to a cornice and parapet, raised on the taller centre to the height of the pediment, with ball finials. A fine central doorcase has blocked pilasters to an open pediment and stepped keys, and an 8-panel door, set in the pedimented 3-window section; 6/6-pane horned sashes to the ground floor, sashes with margin bars above and smaller windows with C20 plate-glass sashes to the second floor; 2 dormers. Rendered sides, C20 second floor to the left wing, which has 2 wide segmental arches at basement height. The projecting basement has corner piers, and 2 doorways with rusticated surrounds, the central one beneath a ramped coping. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick wall and railings to the front of the basement area. One of a number of houses modelled on Clifton Hill House, 1750 (qv), and probably designed by Thomas Paty. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 154).
Listing NGR: ST5886473688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 154
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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