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

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Care and Repair