Alpenfels
ALPENFELS, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129060
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Alpenfels
- Statutory Address:
- ALPENFELS, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129060
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Alpenfels
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALPENFELS, NORTH ROAD
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:
- ALPENFELS, NORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Ashton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56295 73020
Details
ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON NORTH ROAD LEIGHWOODS
5/10000 Alpenfels
GV II
House, c1872 and for Francis F Fox, Chief Engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway from 1872. Snecked and hammer-dressed Pennant stone with Bath stone quoins; gabled low-pitched roof with alternating bands of plain and fish scale tiles. Rectangular plan. Swiss Cottage style. 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range to gabled front. Gabled porch with chamfered pointed-arched doorway with finial and outer pendentives to decorative fretted bargeboards. Stone lintels over windows with flanking shutters and richly decorated and bracketed openwork balconies to first and second floors. Exterior staircase and dormer with decorative tile cheeks and bargeboards. Large carved brackets to wide overhanging eaves with similar decorative bargeboards to all elevations. Similar rear elevation with latticed casements to oriel window and 2-storey square bay windows. Interior: upper floor has panelled doors and latticed woodwork; ground floor noted as having panelling, Gothic-style fireplaces and Minton tile floors. A fine and dramatically-situated example of a house in this style.
Listing NGR: ST5629573020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33607
- 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.
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