Estcourt House And Attached Area Wall / 70 And 70A Park Road

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BRISTOL

ST6176 PARK ROAD, Stapleton 901-1/29/1956 (East side) 04/03/77 Nos.70 AND 70A Estcourt House and attached area wall (Formerly Listed as: PARK ROAD (East side) Nos.70 AND 70A)

GV II

House and former stable. c1720. Pennant ashlar and rubble, limestone and stucco dressings, slate roof and rendered brick stacks. L-shaped to the back, single-depth plan. 2 storeys; 5-window range, in 2 attached blocks. To the right, alternate thick and thin ashlar courses on a rubble plinth, with stucco quoin strips; moulded parapet coping. Left-hand door case with a battered architrave with ears and a flat hood, and a 6-panel door, the top pair glazed, the middle pair fielded. Flush, 4/4-pane sashes with pronounced keys. The left-hand block is squared coursed rubble on the ground floor, rubble and brick on the first floor, and an elliptical-arched coach entrance to the right of a round-arched doorway, with plain keyed surrounds. First-floor 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: hall with segmental-arched niche to the left, rear lateral stair flight with winders top and bottom, and to the left at the back, a shell-head niche with a cherub. On the first floor left-hand room, a moulded acanthus cornice and 3-light bow window with 4-panel shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: raised, flagged, walled front area to No.70, with side and front gates, and tooled flags to No.70A.

Listing NGR: ST6172776208

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1616 IOE Records taken by Ruth Povey; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Ms Ruth Povey. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project