Commonwealth House
COMMONWEALTH HOUSE, 12 AND 14, WHITELADIES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291175
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Commonwealth House
- Statutory Address:
- COMMONWEALTH HOUSE, 12 AND 14, WHITELADIES ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291175
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Commonwealth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMMONWEALTH HOUSE, 12 AND 14, WHITELADIES ROAD
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:
- COMMONWEALTH HOUSE, 12 AND 14, WHITELADIES ROAD
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 57777 73567
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773NE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/3/1112 (West side) 04/03/77 Nos.12 AND 14 Commonwealth House (Formerly Listed as: WHITELADIES ROAD (West side) Nos.12 AND 14)
GV II
Attached pair of houses, now offices. c1850. Limestone ashlar with lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical front has shallow wings and side doorways, a banded ground floor to a moulded plat band, paired upper pilasters with capitals to a frieze, dentil cornice and parapet. The wings have plain ground-floor windows, and bracketed pediment and sill blocks on the first floor; paired ground-floor middle windows with projecting jambs on moulded blocks, a similar pair of jambs to the party wall, all to consoles beneath a balcony with bowed cast-iron railings between the wings. Tripartite first-floor windows with 8/8-pane margin pane sashes, and plain second-floor windows; 6/6-pane sashes. The ends have porches with distyle-in-antis acanthus columns to an entablature, and a semicircular-arched recess above containing a stair light; doorways with side windows and 6-panel doors. INTERIOR: entrance stair halls, stone dogleg winder stairs with cast-iron balusters and a wreathed rail, bracketed cornices and 6-panel doors.
Listing NGR: ST5777773567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380864
- 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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