Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and Attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates
SIDNEY HILL COTTAGE HOMES AND ATTACHED GATEPIERS, WALLS AND GATES, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129199
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and Attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- SIDNEY HILL COTTAGE HOMES AND ATTACHED GATEPIERS, WALLS AND GATES, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129199
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and Attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIDNEY HILL COTTAGE HOMES AND ATTACHED GATEPIERS, WALLS AND GATES, FRONT STREET
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:
- SIDNEY HILL COTTAGE HOMES AND ATTACHED GATEPIERS, WALLS AND GATES, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchill
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 44041 59880
Details
ST 45 NW CHURCHILL C.P. FRONT STREET (south side)
8/83 Sidney Hill Cottage Homes and attached Gatepiers, Walls and Gates
G.V. II
Wesleyan Almshouses. Dated 1907 (on plaque under central archway). By Silcock and Reay. Brick with some stone copings and plain tile roofs, wrought iron to gates. 12 cottages on U-shaped plan in Arts and Crafts Vernacular style. 1 storey and attics. Windows are 3-light wooden casements with small leaded panes, those to attic under gables. Tudor-arched doorways with plank doors and flat hoods on carved consoles. Tall brick stacks. Open hexagonal wooden cupola over central entrance archway. Hill family crest above entrance arch on north front. Boundary walls of brick with limestone mid course and stone copings 2 metres high. Ornamental stone vases at intervals on piers and 2.5 metres high central gatepiers to north entrance with renewed ball finials. 2-leaf wrought iron gates with decorative overthrow; further single leaf gates at east and west corners and also central 2-leaf gates on south boundary wall with pineapple finials to piers. Erected at the expense of Sidney Hill of Langford House and inspired by the painting 'Harbour of Refuge' of 1872 by Frederick Walker, now in the Tate Gallery. (Builder, January 1907; The Studio, April 1907).
Listing NGR: ST4404159880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33951
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Studio in April, (1907)
The Builder in January, (1907)
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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