IVY GATE, NORTH EAST OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE

IVY GATE, NORTH EAST OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE, TYNDALL AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392702
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-2008
List Entry Name:: IVY GATE, NORTH EAST OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: IVY GATE, NORTH EAST OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE, TYNDALL AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392702
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-2008
List Entry Name:: IVY GATE, NORTH EAST OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: IVY GATE, NORTH EAST OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE, TYNDALL AVENUE

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:: IVY GATE, NORTH EAST OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE, TYNDALL AVENUE

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 58312 73445

Reasons for Designation

Ivy Gate has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is an interesting and important survival of a mid-C18 garden structure which remains intact. * It has distinct architectural presence. * The quality and combination of materials used, the gate's design, as well as its monumental scale, convey the wealth and ambition of the residents of St Michael's Hill during the C18. * It has group value with other listed buildings further down the hill, such as Royal Fort House, which relate to the C17 and C18 suburban development of the area. * It makes a positive contribution to the overall character of this part of the university campus.

Details

BRISTOL

901-1/0/10189 TYNDALL AVENUE 12-AUG-08 (South side) IVY GATE, NE OF ROYAL FORT HOUSE

II Monumental gate, of mid-C18 date, constructed of red brick laid to English Garden Wall bond, coursed stone rubble and ashlar detail, on a coursed rubble plinth. The gate is flanked by massive brick piers with clear entasis and topped with projecting concrete coping supported on moulded brick corbels. The north-east elevation is of brick and has an ashlar triple keystone to the round-arched opening. The south-west elevation is more decorative with central brick projection against the stone rubble face. This is surmounted by an open pediment. Beneath this is the round-arched opening with large single ashlar keystone and impost blocks. Within the arch, to both elevations, is an inner gate of ashlar with quintuple-keystone, the middle three sections of which are sequentially dropped. The gate stands on a slight slope and stone steps to the south-west elevation accommodate this.

HISTORY: Ivy Gate is depicted on Roque's map of 1742 and provided the entrance to a garden which formed part of the holdings associated with Cromwell House. The house (demolished in the late-C19) was one of five built on this part of St Michael's Hill in the latter half of the C17 and stood approximately 40m to the west of the gate.

SOURCES: Roger H Leech, The St Michael's Hill Precinct of the University of Bristol. (2000) Bristol Record Society Vol. 52. 45, 57 Andrew Foyle, Bristol. (2004) Pevsner Architectural Guide.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION: Ivy Gate is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is an interesting and important survival of a mid-C18 garden structure which remains intact. * It has distinct architectural presence. * The quality and combination of materials used, the gate's design, as well as its monumental scale, convey the wealth and ambition of the residents of St Michael's Hill during the C18. * It has group value with other listed buildings further down the hill, such as Royal Fort House, which relate to the C17 and C18 suburban development of the area. * It makes a positive contribution to the overall character of this part of the university campus.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 505442
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Foyle, A, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Bristol, (2004)
Leech, R, 'The St Michaels Hill Precint of the University of Bristol' in The St Michaels Hill Precint of the University of Bristol, , Vol. 52, (2000), 45, 57

Legal

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