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© Ms Judy Goodsell
IoE Number:
380866
Location:
BROADCASTING HOUSE, 21 AND 23 WHITELADIES ROAD (east side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Ms Judy Goodsell
Date Photographed:
27 August 2001
Date listed:
04 March 1977
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5773NE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton
901-1/3/1114 (East side)
04/03/77 Nos.21 AND 23
Broadcasting House
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITELADIES ROAD
(East side)
Nos.21 AND 23
BBC)
GV II
Pair of attached houses, now office. 1852. Built by JC Lee.
Limestone ashlar with lateral stacks and a concrete tile
hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3
storeys and basement; 3-window range.
A symmetrical front has projecting 1-window wings with large
Roman Doric porticos, banded ground floor in between, clasping
Ionic pilasters to the wings and party wall, frieze, dentil
cornice and parapet. The doorways have architraves, an
overlight and double 3-panel doors; right-hand one is blocked.
Architraves, console cornices to the first floor, plate-glass
ground-floor sashes, French windows to the middle first floor,
and 6/6-pane sashes the rest. A first-floor tented balcony
across the middle on stone brackets with wrought-iron railings
in oval panels. Left-hand single storey late C19 block is
banded, with 2 windows and a moulded parapet coping. INTERIOR:
entrance halls with dogleg stairs, cast-iron balusters and
curtails, modillion cornices and 6-panel doors. Nos 21-33 (qv)
are linked into a single office.