Heatherton Park
HEATHERTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060339
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Heatherton Park
- Statutory Address:
- HEATHERTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060339
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Heatherton Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEATHERTON PARK
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:
- HEATHERTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Tone
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 16950 21905
Details
BRADFORD-ON-TONE CP ST12SE HEATHERTON PARK 5/10 Heatherton Park 25.1.56 II Country house, now flats. Circa 1770 for Sir Thomas Gunston, alteration; 1790s, porch and conservatory 1840s, chapel added c1920. Brick, rendered on facade, rusticated ground floor mainly obscured on entrance facade by ashlar conservatory left, and C20 lateral stair to right hand block, hipped slate roofs, moulded cornice, large brick stacks,Plan: main 5-bay block facing south, 4-bay east front linked in north east corner by 3-bay service wing, 2 small square lodges abutting on north front enclosing service yard, conservatory fronting main block linked by open loggia to west end of chapel lying north-south. Three storeys plus attic, 5:3 bays; 2 flat roofed 3-light dormers in roof space mainblock, 12-pane sashes below, moulded surrounds with console brackets to sills second floor, first floor similar with moulded lintels and pediment to central window main block, C20 glazed French windows inserted in service block for lateral stair, main block ground floor masked by flat roofed conservatory, four 9-pane windows flanking central projecting flat roofed porch, balustrade, square headed doorway with very narrow side lights; conservator continued as open loggia with pilasters linking chapel: hipped asbestos slate roof, early C18 baroque-style detailing. Rear elevation looking onto courtyard; pilaster quoins, semi-circular headed blind arcade ground floor with 2 divided tracery lights, one over back door, some 12-pane sash windows: 2 single storey pyramid roofed lodges with central stacks. Interior not seen. William Blogg exibited a drawing at the Royal Acadaemy in 1797 for improving the front of Heatherton House, though it is not certain whether it was for this property or one in Sussex. The Adair family, commemorated in the Church of St Giles (qv), lived at Heatherton in the C19 and sold the estate in 1920. In 1922 it became St Katherine School when the chapel, a very accomplished pastiche of a baroque building, was erected. Photograph in NMR; Colvin. 4 Bibliographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1978; Mathews, Bradford and its History, 1925).
Listing NGR: ST1695021905
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270954
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mathews, , Bradford and Its History, (1925)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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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