Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings
PARK MANSIONS AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, MERIDIAN PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355142
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- PARK MANSIONS AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, MERIDIAN PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355142
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK MANSIONS AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, MERIDIAN PLACE
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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:
- PARK MANSIONS AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS, MERIDIAN PLACE
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 57696 73221
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SE MERIDIAN PLACE, Clifton 901-1/9/891 (South East side) Nos.18-23 (Consecutive) Park Mansions and attached front basement area railings
GV II
Terrace of 6 houses. 1835. Perhaps by Henry Goodridge. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and attic; 1-window range. A plain terrace with moulded coping, has 3-storey windowless blocks projecting across the party wall of each pair, with tetrastyle pilastrades with carved capitals to the upper floors on shallow corbels, to a moulded frieze and pediment, and carved lion heads to the returns; 18/19 has a third storey added in place of the pediment. Openings have splayed surrounds: 2 doorways to the middle, blocked to No.18, single-window range to the sides of the middle, to 6/6-pane sashes. Nos 18 & 19 have fourth storey added. INTERIOR: entrance lobby, to a central passage and top-lit open dogleg stair with turned balusters; modillion cornices, and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron spear-headed front basement area railings. A striking and unusual design. Goodridge was the architect of the original Pro-Cathedral (qv) to the rear of Meridian Place. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 257).
Listing NGR: ST5769673221
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379996
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 257
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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