Number 4 and Area Railings
NUMBER 4 AND AREA RAILINGS, 4, BROAD PLAIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282402
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Number 4 and Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 4 AND AREA RAILINGS, 4, BROAD PLAIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282402
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 4 and Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 4 AND AREA RAILINGS, 4, BROAD PLAIN
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:
- NUMBER 4 AND AREA RAILINGS, 4, BROAD PLAIN
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 59620 72956
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 BROAD PLAIN 901-1/42/24 (South side) 08/01/59 No.4 and area railings (Formerly Listed as: BROAD PLAIN (South side) Nos.2-5 (Consecutive))
GV II
House, now offices. c1760. Roughcast, brick end stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. 3-storeys and basement; 3-window range. Symmetrical frontage has a central doorway with an open pediment on pilasters, a 6-panel door and plain fanlight; either side are 2-storey canted bays with an entablature with triglyphs to the ground floor and a cornice to the first floor, and 6/6-pane sashes flanking 8/8-pane sashes. The upper windows have flush sash boxes, with 6/6-pane sashes above the door, and paired 12/12 panes above the bays. INTERIOR: wide central through-hall with modillion cornice and flagged floor; a fine open-well stair to the rear right, with urn-and-column balusters and a wide curtail, ramped hand rail and fluted panels, and a good niche with a pastoral plasterwork scene to the head; fireplaces in the hall and upstairs rooms; the cellars have round-arched vaults. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wrought-iron railings with small ball finials to the front area, with an overthrow arch and an ashlar pier to the right. The left-hand bay is isolated from the rest of the house, and has its own railings.
Listing NGR: ST5962072956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378993
- 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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