NUMBERS 15 TO 25 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA AND GARDEN RAILINGS TO NORTH EAST

NUMBERS 15 TO 25 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA AND GARDEN RAILINGS TO NORTH EAST, 15-25, VICTORIA SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291767
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 15 TO 25 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA AND GARDEN RAILINGS TO NORTH EAST
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 15 TO 25 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA AND GARDEN RAILINGS TO NORTH EAST, 15-25, VICTORIA SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291767
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 15 TO 25 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA AND GARDEN RAILINGS TO NORTH EAST
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 15 TO 25 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA AND GARDEN RAILINGS TO NORTH EAST, 15-25, VICTORIA SQUARE

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 15 TO 25 (CONSECUTIVE) AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA AND GARDEN RAILINGS TO NORTH EAST, 15-25, VICTORIA 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 57203 73079

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773SW VICTORIA SQUARE, Clifton 901-1/8/1080 (South West side) 08/01/59 Nos.15-25 (Consecutive) and attached front basement area and garden railings to north-east

GV II*

Terrace of 11 houses. c1855. J Marmont. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and pantile and slate hipped and mansard roofs. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A composed 'palace front' terrace has the end and central houses stepped forward, with rusticated pilasters to a cornice on large consoles, and coped attic storey. Plat band, sill bands and strings to upper floors, and a continuous first-floor balcony on cast-iron brackets with elaborate railings with round panels and foliate finials. Ground-floor openings have architraves, with right-hand doorways with overlights and 4-panel doors. First-floor semicircular-arched windows with imposts, and panels with shields between. Paired semicircular-arched second-floor windows set in round arches, with sunken spandrels, and aprons of intersecting circles. Plate-glass sashes and first-floor French windows. Attic has paired semicircular-arched windows between panelled pilasters; the end and centre houses have segmental pediments to the windows, a second attic storey above with paired windows, with 3 to the centre, and large acroteria on the corners of the parapet. The end houses have side entrances in symmetrical 1-window range facades, single-storey porches with open fronts and rusticated sides, windows above as the front set between rusticated pilasters. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area cast-iron railings and gates. A less carefully composed terrace than Royal Promenade (qv), although still a very influential one which forms part of a remarkable group of terraces which exemplify the move away from more severe early C19 classicism. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 261; Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 166).

Listing NGR: ST5720373079

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Legacy System number:: 380766
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 261
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 166

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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.