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Latitude: 51.4609 / 51°27'39"N
Longitude: -2.5846 / 2°35'4"W
OS Eastings: 359480
OS Northings: 173705
OS Grid: ST594737
Mapcode National: GBR CBH.D5
Mapcode Global: VH88N.4JZY
Plus Code: 9C3VFC68+85
Entry Name: Numbers 14-17 and Attached Area Railings
Listing Date: 8 January 1959
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282179
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380186
ID on this website: 101282179
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
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BRISTOL
ST5973NW PORTLAND SQUARE, St Paul
901-1/6/1902 (East side)
08/01/59 Nos.14-17 (Consecutive)
and attached area railings
(Formerly Listed as:
PORTLAND SQUARE
(East side)
Nos.14-17 (Consecutive))
GV I
Terrace of 4 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. Half of
a formal composition interrupted by St Paul's Church (qv), the
end houses project slightly and No.14 has an ashlar attic;
rusticated ground-floor, 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
left gable has a central semicircular-arched stair window and
3 lunettes above the cornice. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt
behind the facade.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: spear railings to basement areas.
Forms part of Bristol's '...most complete and beautiful
square' (Gomme).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 209; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 220; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth
Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-: 53).
Listing NGR: ST5948273713
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