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© Mrs Sheila Adams
IoE Number:
379864
Location:
16 KING STREET (south side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mrs Sheila Adams
Date Photographed:
16 July 2002
Date listed:
08 January 1959
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II*
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BRISTOL
ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre
901-1/16/601 (South side)
08/01/59 No.16
(Formerly Listed as:
KING STREET
(South side)
Nos.16-20 (Consecutive))
GV II*
Attached house, now office. c1665, C18 fenestration. Rendered
timber-frame, roof not visible. Single rooms to front and rear
with left-hand stair between (the original plan form).
4 storeys and basement; 1-window range. Shallow jetties to
each floor with fascia boards, and C18 timber parapet with a
shallow pediment in front of the roof gable. Ground floor has
C19 shop front with outer doorways with scrolled consoles
either side to the jetty, 6-panel doors, and C19 eight-pane
shop window between above a panelled stall riser. Horned
10/10-pane sashes, larger to the first floor.
INTERIOR: central right-hand framed newel stair above the
ground floor, with uncut string, turned balusters and square
newels with ball finials and roll-topped rail, door frames
with ovolo mouldings and cyma stops, and moulded ground-floor
floor beam supported by a turned samson post, possibly a
former ship's spar. The gable was set back in a C18
modernisation.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 84).