Number 17 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, DOWNLEAZE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282294
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 17 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, DOWNLEAZE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282294
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Number 17 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, DOWNLEAZE
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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:
- NUMBER 17 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, DOWNLEAZE
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 56627 75207
Details
ST 5675 BRISTOL DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park
(East side)
901-1/31/1783
No 17 and attached front
garden walls and piers
II
House, now flats. c1890. Possibly H. Dare Bryan. Snecked lias with limestone dressings, no chimneys and a tile roof Double-depth plan. Eclectic late Victorian style, with Queen Anne influences, 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range.
An asymmetrical front turns the corner to the right, has a projecting left-hand wing and a right- hand hexagonal corner turret; in between are paired, open semicircular-arched entrances with a central Doric column, beneath an entablature with triglyphs and circles, and 2-leaf recessed doorways with half-glazed door, above is a 3-light stained-glass stair light. Ground-floor casements with glazing bars above the transom; first-floor 6/1-pane sashes in the turret.
The wing has 3-light windows, with mullions and transoms on the ground floor with decorative panels either side on th first floor, and with sashes to the attic beneath an ashlar shaped gable with finials. The windows in the turret have pediments to the ground floor, decorated panels to the second, and between the attic windows are female half-figures supporting the eaves,
The right return has a projecting gable with canted ground-floor balustraded bay, first-floor windows as the left end, and paired second-floor sashes beneath a carved lintel with a fluted radiating stone fan, corner finials and a banded top to the gable.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having had the stair removed in the flat conversion.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers with obelisk finials to No 17. Shares several decorative features with Bryan's Downleaze houses to the left. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: ST5662775207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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