ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALL AND GATE

ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALL AND GATE, 14, SOMERSET STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293111
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALL AND GATE
Statutory Address:: ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALL AND GATE, 14, SOMERSET STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293111
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALL AND GATE
Statutory Address 1:: ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALL AND GATE, 14, SOMERSET STREET

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:: ASHLEY HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, REAR WALL AND GATE, 14, SOMERSET STREET

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 58796 73869

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873NE SOMERSET STREET, Kingsdown 901-1/5/1529 (South East side) 04/03/77 No.14 Ashley House and attached railings, rear wall and gate (Formerly Listed as: SOMERSET STREET No.14)

GV II

House. Late C18, part rebuilt C19. Brick with limestone dressings, limestone ashlar rear elevation, pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys, basement and attic, 4 storey middle block; 7-window range. 3 sections marked by pilasters to a cornice and parapet, first-floor sill band, the left section rebuilt C19. A C19 Doric portico to the left of the middle block with a triglyph entablature and cornice, and a semicircular-arched doorway with a wide door; above it is a full-height bow with three 6/6-pane sashes, and a central door on the second floor; central first-floor semicircular-arched stair light with interlacing glazing bars; remaining windows have cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes, plate-glass to the left-hand block; a doorway to the far left with 5 stepped voussoirs. Steps down to the basement and cellars, beneath the portico. Ashlar rear elevation has a central section broken forward with a full-height canted bay, pointed-arched doorway to the right, and a good semicircular tented wrought-iron balcony with batswing brackets. INTERIOR: C19 glazed screen to a central hall, a segmental arch to the right with acanthus brackets, a dogleg stair with slender turned balusters, curtail and wreathed rail, and modillion cornice; good built-in dresser in the basement rear kitchen; panelled shutters, 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Cast-iron spear-headed front basement area railings; vaulted brick cellars in front below the road; attached brick and squared coursed rubble garden wall to the rear, with a Pennant pointed-arched doorway in the Dove Street elevation with a small grille to the door.

Listing NGR: ST5879673869

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Legacy System number:: 380569
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.