Numbers 8 and 9 and Attached Front Area Railings, Gates and Balustrade
NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND BALUSTRADE, 8 AND 9, CLIFTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282331
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 8 and 9 and Attached Front Area Railings, Gates and Balustrade
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND BALUSTRADE, 8 AND 9, CLIFTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282331
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 8 and 9 and Attached Front Area Railings, Gates and Balustrade
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND BALUSTRADE, 8 AND 9, CLIFTON PARK
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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:
- NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, GATES AND BALUSTRADE, 8 AND 9, CLIFTON PARK
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 57192 73483
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW CLIFTON PARK, Clifton 901-1/8/797 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.8 AND 9 and attached front railings, gates and balustrade (Formerly Listed as: CLIFTON PARK (North side) Nos.8 AND 9)
GV II
Pair of attached houses. 1846. Limestone ashlar with external and party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Tudor Gothic Revival style. Each of 2 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. A detailed, symmetrical front has projecting wings with small gables and octagonal, panelled buttress-turrets with octagonal finials; weathered sill bands, a moulded parapet, paired buttresses to the party wall linked by a raised parapet, and side entrances. Windows have stone mullions and transoms with tall lower windows, to metal casements: shallow, canted outer bays with 4 and flanking 2 lights and blind tracery panelled parapets; above are smaller canted 3-light bays with weathered heads. The rest are 3-light windows with raised hollow drip moulds, without transoms to the attic. The right return has a c1970 concrete porch. The left return has an open porch with unglazed windows and panelled parapet with a corner finial to a good restored 2-leaf half-glazed door with linenfold panels, C20 stained-glass windows with crocketed ogee heads, and a 2-light overlight; a left-hand gabled wing as the front but with corbelled octagonal finials to the attic, and right-hand external stack. Good linked octagonal stacks have cornices. INTERIOR: No.7 has tiled entrance hall with a Gothic cornice of quatrefoils, Tudor arch to the now-removed stair, 6-panel doors with panelled reveals, and shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed railings to front and side basement areas, and front garden railings, gates, piers and a good balustrade to No.9 of cusped circles. A similar composition to Nos 6 & 7 (qv), though more richly decorated. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 285; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 164).
Listing NGR: ST5719273483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379257
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 164
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 285
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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