PYPERS

PYPERS, CHURCH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1128876
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: PYPERS
Statutory Address:: PYPERS, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1128876
Date first listed:: 05-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: PYPERS
Statutory Address 1:: PYPERS, CHURCH ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PYPERS, CHURCH ROAD

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Alveston
National Grid Reference:: ST 62846 86660

Details

ST 68 NW ALVESTON CHURCH ROAD (south side) Rudgeway

8/52 Pypers

G.V. II

House. Late C18 with early C19 additions and c.1930 additions in same style. Limestone ashlar, wing to right rendered and scored to match ashlar, lead and slate roofs with stacks to each side of main block. Main block has side wings, originally flanking pavilions. Classical style. Centre block has 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows, all early C19 sashes of 12 panes and 3 dormers of 4 panes with segmental heads, central Ionic portico with open segmental pediment and dentillation, double fielded and panelled doors, large fanlight, moulded arch rising from impost blocks, acanthus keystone, plinth, cornice, parapet and coping. c.1930 wings to right and left broken forward, 2 storeys, 4 x 3 windows to right, 3 x 2 to left, of various sizes symmetrically placed, all with glazing bars, cornice, parapet, coping and end stack to right, loggia to left side with 3 pairs of Ionic columns, dentilled cornice, balustrade with corner and central dies, 2 French windows. Rear of main block has all windows as on front, 2 storey canted bay to each side with glazing bars. Interior: entrance hall has curved, open string stair with slender bobbin-turned balusters and banded mahogany wreathed handrail carried round 1st floor landing, all doors in wooden architraves with open scrolled. segmental pediments and inner panelling, wooden acanthus and flower carved fireplace, cornice, ground floor rooms have Adam-style wooden fireplaces and shutters to windows.

Listing NGR: ST6284686660

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 35148
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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