17 AND 19, CLARE STREET
17 AND 19, CLARE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282359
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 17 AND 19, CLARE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17 AND 19, CLARE STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-10-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/01415/30
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282359
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 17 AND 19, CLARE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17 AND 19, CLARE 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.
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:
- 17 AND 19, CLARE 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 58696 72948
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/546 (North West side) 01/11/66 Nos.17 AND 19
GV II
Attached offices. Dated 1899. By Alfred Waterhouse. For the Prudential Assurance. Red terracotta and pink granite, ridge stack and Cornish slate hexagonal pyramidal roof. Double-depth plan. French Loire Chateau Revival style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. A symmetrical block to 3 sides of a corner site has drum towers with conical roofs and lead finials to the corners, a plain granite plinth with roll-mouldings under the windows, sill bands, friezes and cornices to each floor, a dentil cornice breaking forward over the window jambs, and panelled parapet. The right-hand semicircular-arched doorway has billet moulding to a chamfered reveal, in a moulded gable between large consoles with foliate faces, castellate finials to the gable, and a dated cartouche. Windows are set in raised full-height sections, paired to the centre, and narrower 2-light windows above the doorway; architraves with billet mouldings, pilaster jambs to upper floors with floriate panels and crocket capitals, and panelled aprons to the second floor; right-hand first-floor mullion and second-floor cross windows. Large 1:2:1 two-light semicircular-arched dormers with pilaster jambs, gables to the outer ones with pedimented top blocks, and large central tripartite gable with side consoles and a segmental pediment. The rear elevation is the same, and the left return is fenestrated as the central section; side and rear have plain basement openings. The towers have 3 small ground-floor windows set flat across the tower's curve, with swan's neck pediments, and single cross windows above. Plate-glass sashes. A large central stack has angle buttresses, central semicircular arches and a cornice. INTERIOR: entrance dogleg stair with foliate wrought-iron railings, and pale green moulded glazed tiled wainscot with Art Nouveau patterns and fluted reeded frieze; 6-panel doors, and eared fire surrounds with green tiles. Waterhouse was the Prudential's architect, and this is his only building in Bristol. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 389; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 65).
Listing NGR: ST5869672948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379193
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 389
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 65
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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