23-29, ST MICHAELS HILL

23-29, ST MICHAELS HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1372294
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
23-29, ST MICHAELS HILL
Statutory Address:
23-29, ST MICHAELS HILL
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1372294
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
23-29, ST MICHAELS HILL
Statutory Address 1:
23-29, ST MICHAELS HILL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
23-29, ST MICHAELS HILL

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 58503 73331

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE ST MICHAEL'S HILL 901-1/11/249 (South West side) 04/03/77 Nos.23-29 (Odd)

GV II*

Row of 4 attached houses, Nos 27 & 29 now one restaurant. Mid C17 with C18 windows. Timber-framed, render and roughcast, brick party wall stack and a pantile gabled roof. Single front and rear rooms separated by a central lobby with stairs to the right. Each of 3 storeys and attic; 1-window range. 2 attached, gabled pairs have jettied first floors with strings, and barge-boards. Paired doorways, have chamfered pegged frames, narrow overlights and panelled doors. Ground floor has 8/8-pane sash to No.23, 3/6-panes to No.25, and plate-glass windows to Nos 27 & 29. Full-height oriels have 8/8-pane and flanking 2/2-pane sashes in exposed frames. The left return of No.23 has a rear single-storey block with two 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: No.27 & 29 have fireplaces to the outer side walls of each pair, with winder dogleg stairs between the fire and the spine wall; moulded cornice to first-floor front room; panelled cupboards by fire and to top of stairs in attic; pegged doorframes and plank doors. No.25 has a right-hand dogleg winder stair with stick balusters and column newels, a C17 door frame to ground-floor rear room; C19 joinery the rest. Plan form characteristic of mid C17 houses in Bristol, such as those on King Street. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 71).

Listing NGR: ST5850173331

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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 71

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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