Numbers 45 and 47 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers

NUMBERS 45 AND 47 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, DOWNLEAZE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282297
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
Numbers 45 and 47 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 45 AND 47 AND ATTACHED FRONT GARDEN WALLS AND PIERS, DOWNLEAZE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1282297
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 45 and 47 and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 45 AND 47 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.

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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:
NUMBERS 45 AND 47 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 56462 75112

Details

BRISTOL

ST5675 DOWNLEAZE, Sneyd Park 901-1/31/1798 (South East side) 04/03/77 Nos.45 AND 47 and attached front garden walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWNLEAZE Nos.45, 47 AND 36-42 (Even))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. Dated 1898. By Henry Dare Bryan. Snecked limestone rubble and dressings, tile-hung top floor, brick ridge and diagonally-set external gable stacks and double Roman tile gable and hip roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style. 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range. A finely detailed near-symmetrical pair, of which No.47 turns the corner into Julian Road, with entrances set back at the sides, and projecting paired gables to the middle; ground-floor stone-framed windows, first- and second-floor timber windows. Elliptical arches to doorways with winged cupids to the spandrels, beneath a panel with eared architrave, and 2-leaf panelled doors. The central gables are banded with coped tops and ball finials, ground-floor Ipswich windows beneath panels with large cartouches, and first- and second-floor 5-light canted bays set flush with the gable under a wide overhanging brick and stone arch. Outer windows have 3 lights, with fine leaded casements to the left, and forming a balustraded balcony to the right; to the second-floor shallow bracketed eaves dormers with raked roofs; windows to the right have glazing bars to metal casements, with plate glass to the left. Large patterned stacks, and in the left return a matching gable to the front ones. Flat rear elevations with stair windows and single-storey service blocks. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front garden walls and piers with ball finials. Strongly influenced by Norman Shaw's Bedford Park, 1881. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 398).

Listing NGR: ST5646275112

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379518
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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 398

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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