Royal Colonnade
ROYAL COLONNADE, 12-18, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282279
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Colonnade
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL COLONNADE, 12-18, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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- 2003-09-04
- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282279
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Colonnade
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL COLONNADE, 12-18, GREAT GEORGE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL COLONNADE, 12-18, GREAT GEORGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5811772941
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NW GREAT GEORGE STREET 901-1/15/99 (North West side) 08/01/59 Nos.12-18 (Even) Royal Colonnade
GV II*
Terrace of 4 houses, now offices. c1826. Possibly by RS Pope. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. A composed terrace of projecting end houses linked by a colonnade of Ionic columns, spaced 1:2:2:1 to each house, to an entablature and balustrade of square balusters and panels with wreaths. The upper floors have pilasters from a plat band, to a frieze, cornice and parapet. End doorways have pilasters to an entablature and cornice and semicircular arches, and paired central doorways have semicircular-arched architraves, to fanlights and 6-panel doors. Plain ground-floor windows behind the colonnade, architraves to the rest, ground-floor cornices, and console cornices to the first-floor windows behind the colonnade; 8/8-pane sashes, 4/8-panes on the second floor. INTERIOR: entrance hall with an elliptical arch to a central stair hall with a lateral dogleg winder stair with stick balusters and a banded rail, set in a bowed party wall, and top lit by an oval lantern; basement range in keyed fire surround; marble fireplaces; egg-and-dart mouldings, architraves with roundels to 6-panel doors. Probably Bristol's first Neoclassical terrace; attributed to Pope on the basis of the characteristically irregular colonnade, and use of wreath motif. (Mowl T: To Build the Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 140; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 230).
Listing NGR: ST5815972919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 140
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 230
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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