Print Page
© Mr Peter Frederick Rushby LMPA
IoE Number:
379859
Location:
NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 6 KING STREET (south side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mr Peter Frederick Rushby LMPA
Date Photographed:
22 August 1999
Date listed:
08 January 1959
Date of last amendment:
08 January 1959
Grade
II*
The Images of England website consists of images of listed buildings based on the statutory list as it was in 2001 and does not incorporate subsequent amendments to the list. For the statutory list and information on the current listed status of individual buildings please go to The National Heritage List for England.
BRISTOL
ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre
901-1/16/598 (South side)
08/01/59 No.6
and attached railings
GV II*
Attached house, now offices. c1665, refronted c1720.
Timber-framed, front of red brick with limestone dressings,
and pantile double-pile roof, hipped to the front and gabled
at the rear, and rear stair tower. Double-depth plan. Early
Georgian style.
3 storeys, attic and basement; 6-window range. A regular front
has rusticated pilaster strips, strings to each floor and
moulded coping. The doorway to right of centre has a moulded
frame, 4-pane overlight and 6-panel door, with a shell hood on
carved acanthus brackets. Lintels have 5 incised voussoirs to
9/9-pane sashes in flush frames with thick bars, and 2 hipped
dormers with 6/6-pane sashes. Steps down to left-hand basement
doorway. The left return has varied fenestration with 2
doorways to the left.
INTERIOR: good C18 ground-floor panelling, earlier to
right-hand room with a continuous overmantel and fire
surround, and flanking cupboards; raised panels and an early
C18 safe in left-hand room with a mid C18 Adamesque fire
surround; chamfered beams in central hall with bar stops;
central rear open-well C17 stair in its own stair tower, with
uncut string, turned balusters and square newels, rebuilt to
upper floors, and panelled, ramped C18 wainscot; collar beam
trusses in attic.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached basement area cast-iron
railings, curved up to the doorway.
The original gables, presumably like those on the neighbouring
Nos 7 & 8 King Street (qv), were cut back to form hips when
refronted. The C18 front has stylistic links with contemporary
houses in Dowry Square.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 100).