Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE COLSTON STREET
901-1/11/84 (East side)
02/04/73 Nos.68 AND 70

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now shops and offices. Late C17,
refenestrated C18, C19 shop fronts. Rendered timber-frame with
a central brick stack and pantile roof. Single rooms front and
back with central inner stairs. Each of 2 storeys and attic,
No.70 single storey and attic; 2-window range. A pair of steep
gables to the street have shop fronts, that to No.68 extending
across the party wall, beneath a jettied first floor, with
boxed eaves. Shop fronts have central doorways between shallow
bowed windows with glazing bars. First-floor canted oriels
have a 10/10-pane sash to No.70 and casement with glazing bars
to No.68, and 8/8-pane sashes in flush frames above. INTERIOR:
No.70 has a central right-hand winder stair and chamfered
lateral ceiling beams. A plan form typical of other mid C17
houses such as in King Street.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or
Historic Interest: 18).

Listing NGR: ST5858773234

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482476

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)