TOWER AT HOLLYWOOD TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL

TOWER AT HOLLYWOOD TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLLYWOOD LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1128869
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: TOWER AT HOLLYWOOD TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: TOWER AT HOLLYWOOD TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLLYWOOD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1128869
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 05-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: TOWER AT HOLLYWOOD TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER AT HOLLYWOOD TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLLYWOOD LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER AT HOLLYWOOD TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLLYWOOD LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Almondsbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 57280 81393

Details

ST 58 SE ALMONDSBURY HOLLYWOOD LANE (north east side) 11/34 Tower at Hollywood Tower and 21.10.52 boundary wall - II

3-stage clock tower. Early/mid C19. Coursed rubble and stone dressings. Square plan, Italianate and Early English style. Weathered angle buttresses, door with pointed arch in chamfered stone surround, hood mould with mask stops, with arms of Sir Stanley White over, moulded string courses, lancet with wooden louvres at 1st floor level in eaved architrave, clock set in upper level in decorative stone surround, stone Lombard frieze under coved cornice with rosettes, embattled parapet. Sides have 2-light window with Y tracery in stone surround and one slit window in eaved architrave at ground level, lancet at 1st floor and 2 windows with trefoil heads at 2nd floor, upper one with mask stops to hood mould. Rear has angled stair turret with slit windows. Octagonal stone cupola with blind windows to each side with roundels in spandrels and blind cross slits. Low boundary wall in ashlar on rubble plinth with pierced trefoils and coping has shield set in roundel on piers at corners and to each side of entry. Reputed to have been built as an observatory.

Listing NGR: ST5728081393

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Legacy System number:: 35128
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.