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Latitude: 51.4605 / 51°27'37"N
Longitude: -2.586 / 2°35'9"W
OS Eastings: 359385
OS Northings: 173663
OS Grid: ST593736
Mapcode National: GBR CBH.29
Mapcode Global: VH88N.4K78
Plus Code: 9C3VFC67+5J
Entry Name: Numbers 1 to 6 and Attached Area Railings
Listing Date: 8 January 1959
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202443
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380184
ID on this website: 101202443
Location: Newtown, Bristol, BS2
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Ashley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Bristol St Paul's
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BRISTOL
ST5973NW PORTLAND SQUARE, St Paul
901-1/6/1900 (West side)
08/01/59 Nos.1-6 (Consecutive)
and attached area railings
GV I
Terrace of 6 houses. 1789-1820. By Daniel Hague. Limestone
ashlar, brick stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth
plan. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, basement and
attic; 3-window range.
Part of a symmetrical composition to the side of the square,
interrupted by Surrey Street, in which the end houses project
slightly with an ashlar attic storey. A rusticated ground
floor, with pilasters from the first-floor plat band to a
modillion cornice and parapet; right-hand doorcases have Ionic
columns and modillion pediments, batswing fanlights and
6-panel doors; rusticated voussoirs to the ground-floor
windows and plain voussoirs above, with 6/6-pane sashes; the
end gables have a large central semicircular-arched doorway
with a Gibbs surround, and a similar stair windows above.
INTERIOR: largely rebuilt c1974 behind the facades, with
restored lateral, curved open-well stairs to the middle.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spear railings to basement areas. Part of
Bristol's '...most complete and beautiful square' (Gomme).
(Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 220;
Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol:
Bristol: 1923-: 55).
Listing NGR: ST5938773659
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