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Rock House and Attached Front Pavement and Basement Area Railings and Gates

A Grade II Listed Building in Clifton, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4526 / 51°27'9"N

Longitude: -2.6262 / 2°37'34"W

OS Eastings: 356585

OS Northings: 172810

OS Grid: ST565728

Mapcode National: GBR C1L.34

Mapcode Global: VH88M.FRH9

Plus Code: 9C3VF93F+2G

Entry Name: Rock House and Attached Front Pavement and Basement Area Railings and Gates

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1292966

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379823

ID on this website: 101292966

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 Holy Trinity with St Andrew the Less and St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


BRISTOL

ST5672NE HOTWELL ROAD, Hotwells 901-1/13/1459 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.410 AND 412 Rock House and attached front pavement and basement area railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: HOTWELL ROAD (North side) Nos.410 AND 412 Rock House)

GV II

House, now divided into 2. c1800. Render with limestone dressings, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has pilaster strips to a moulded coping, a wide basement area with Pennant-stepped bridge to an elliptical-arched doorway with metal batswing fanlight and 2-leaf 12-panel door with fluted lower panels. In front of the basement area is a later colonnade of 6 slim Tuscan columns, square to each end, to a deep first-floor balcony, and a shallow, tented second-floor balcony on cast-iron brackets with flat stanchions, both with pointed-arched wrought-iron railings with quatrefoils; 8/8-pane ground-floor sashes, French windows above, and plate-glass basement sashes. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having a lobby with glazed screen and fanlight, to a rear open-well stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: raised Pennant pavement faced with Pennant rubble, and attached basement area spear-headed railings and gates. (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 213).

Listing NGR: ST5658572810

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