Numbers 28 and 29 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings and Gates
NUMBERS 28 AND 29 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 28 AND 29, CANYNGE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282379
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 28 and 29 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 28 AND 29 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 28 AND 29, CANYNGE SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282379
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 28 and 29 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 28 AND 29 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 28 AND 29, CANYNGE SQUARE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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 28 AND 29 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND GATES, 28 AND 29, CANYNGE SQUARE
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 56853 73612
Details
BRISTOL
ST5673NE CANYNGE SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/1/725 (North West side) 04/03/77 Nos.28 AND 29 and attached front basement area railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: CANYNGE SQUARE Nos.26-33 (Consecutive))
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1847. By Charles Underwood, finished by WB Gingell. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and slate and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow projecting wings, deep cornice and parapet, linked to single-storey outer porches by a deep moulded band which carries on to the neighbouring pairs. Segmental-arched doorways with raised surrounds, plate-glass overlights and 2-panel doors. Raised window surrounds with sill blocks and small ears, tripartite inner ground-floor windows, to 4/4-pane sashes, and 2/2-pane sashes with margin panes to the second floor. No.28 has a first-floor tented balcony to the inner window with cast-iron decorative railings and Vitruvian scroll, and a full-height extension set back over the porch. Rear elevation has a 5-window range, of first-floor semicircular-arched windows with raised, keyed surrounds, tripartite outer and single central windows with 2/2-pane sashes, each with a first-floor cast-iron balcony with diagonal railings and Vitruvian scroll; upper windows have raised, eared surrounds and 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area spear-headed cast-iron railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: finished by Gingell after the original speculator was made bankrupt. Part of quasi-terrace of 4 linked semi-detached pairs, intermediate between the composed terrace of Nos 8-25 (qv), and the separate pairs along the W side of the square, all by Underwood.
Listing NGR: ST5685373612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379080
- 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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