NUMBERS 1 TO 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS

NUMBERS 1 TO 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-13, WEST MALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291489
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-13, WEST MALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291489
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 1 TO 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 1 TO 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-13, WEST MALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 1 TO 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, 1-13, WEST MALL

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District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 56877 73102

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673SE WEST MALL, Clifton 901-1/7/1091 (North West side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-13 (Consecutive) and attached front basement area railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST MALL Nos.1-13 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Terrace of 13 houses. 1788. Probably by John Eveleigh. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and slate mansard roofs. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A composed terrace with end and middle houses set forward with pediments, first-floor sill bands, and central windows with first-floor pediments; articulated by pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet, and rusticated ground floor to a plat band. Full attic storeys added to Nos 2, 3, 11 & 13. Outer entrances have panelled pilasters, entablature blocks with paterae, open pediments, semicircular-arched doorways, No.8 has a stellate fanlight, plate-glass the rest, and 6-panel doors with upper 4 raised. Incised voussoirs with a tall key to the ground-floor windows, with 6/6-pane sashes, and 3/6-pane second-floor sashes; 2 dormers. No.9 has a wrought-iron tented balcony with lattice railings, No.11 has first-floor French windows to a tented balcony with cast-iron railings and foliate brackets to fluted stanchions, No.2 has a first-floor balcony with wrought-iron railings and cobweb spandrels. The right return has a 3-window range, the left 2 blind, a matching doorway with panelled reveals, and a left-hand early C19 shop window with eared architrave, moulded consoles to a cornice, and painted glass facia. INTERIOR: entrance hall divided by panelled arch from open dogleg stair with stick balusters, column newels, curtail and ramped rail, first-floor rooms linked by panelled folding doors; marble fire surrounds, 6-panel doors and panelled shutters. No.1 has good C19 shop fittings with display cases with pediments, and a painted ceiling. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron front basement area railings and gates with bud heads. Forms an important group with the matching Nos 32-44 Caledonia Place (qv), and with Nos 1-31 Caledonia Place (qv) and Nos 14-34 West Mall (qv) forms a very good, and for Clifton uniquely formal, planned square. (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 223).

Listing NGR: ST5687773102

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Sources

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Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 223

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.