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Latitude: 51.4544 / 51°27'15"N
Longitude: -2.6252 / 2°37'30"W
OS Eastings: 356654
OS Northings: 173011
OS Grid: ST566730
Mapcode National: GBR C1K.9G
Mapcode Global: VH88M.GP0X
Plus Code: 9C3VF93F+QW
Entry Name: Numbers 2 and 3 and Attached Area Railings, Gate and Piers
Listing Date: 8 January 1959
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202569
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380532
ID on this website: 101202569
Location: Hotwells, Bristol, BS8
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Clifton Christ Church with Emmanuel
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Building
BRISTOL
ST5673SE SION HILL, Clifton
901-1/7/1017 (East side)
08/01/59 Nos.2 AND 3
and attached area railings, gate and
piers
(Formerly Listed as:
SION HILL
Nos.2 AND 3)
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1800. Limestone ashlar, brick party
wall stacks and slate mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late
Georgian style.
Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 1-bay range. A matching
pair, the right-hand one set forward, with outer pilaster
strips to a cornice and parapet, sill bands and first-floor
string. Steps up to left-hand doorways with shallow recessed
surrounds and deeply-set doorways with plate-glass overlights
and 6-panel doors, the top pair raised with cut off corners.
Full-height 3-light bows have panelled ground-floor aprons
with curved 6/6-pane and flanking 4/4-pane sashes, 3/6-pane
and 2/4-pane second-floor sashes, with blind boxes. 2 dormers
and single basement windows. First-floor timber tented
balconies have wrought-iron pointed-arched railings with
quatrefoils and stanchions.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with a central lateral open dogleg
stair with stick balusters and a wreathed rail and curtail,
lit by a round lantern, with a room between the stair and
party wall, semicircular-arched recesses, 6-panel doors with
reeded architraves, panelled shutters and fire surrounds.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front basement area
railings and gates with urn finials, and capped banded piers.
A most distinctive design which benefits from the use of bold
full-height rounded bays with fine tented balconies.
Listing NGR: ST5665873008
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