Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE JOHN STREET, Centre
901-1/11/594 (South East side)
04/03/77 Nos.12-17 (Consecutive)

GV II

Terrace of 6 houses, now offices. c1770, mid C19 shop fronts.
Brick with limestone dressings, brick party walls stacks and
slate and pantile mansard roofs, hipped pantile roofs to Nos
15 & 16. Double-depth plan. Each of 3 storeys, attic and
basement; 2-window range, Nos 12 & 13 of 3 windows. Shop
fronts beneath pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet,
ramped up to No.14, and stepped down to Nos 13 & 15. Shop
fronts have pilasters to fascias and cornices; No.12 has a
right-hand 6-panel door, and rectangular overlight with margin
panes; No.13 has a left-hand doorway; No.14 has left-hand
doorway, overlight with margin panes and a tripartite
plate-glass window; Nos 15 & 16 are a reverse pair, with
scrolled fascia consoles, 16 with a plate-glass window with
slim mullions; No.17 has a right-hand 3-panel door and
plate-glass window. Windows above have 5 stepped voussoirs to
plate-glass sashes, 6/6-pane sashes to Nos 12 & 17. No.14 has
a dormer with early C19 wrought-iron railings with pointed
arches and quatrefoils round the top. The left return to No.12
in 2 sections, a 2-storey extension to the rear separated by a
narrow recess from the 3-storey gabled front, 2:3 windows with
cambered heads to 6/6-pane sashes, blind to the right-hand
end. The rear has similar windows in a 2-window range.
INTERIOR: lateral dogleg winder stairs with slim
column-on-vase balusters, ramped rails, uncut string and
column newels, a narrower framed newel attic stair, and
semicircular-arched brick vaults.

Listing NGR: ST5883773169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497950

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