The Old Parsonage
THE OLD PARSONAGE, BRISTOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136471
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Parsonage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD PARSONAGE, BRISTOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136471
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Parsonage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD PARSONAGE, BRISTOL 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:
- THE OLD PARSONAGE, BRISTOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Farrington Gurney
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 62945 55581
Details
ST 65 NW FARRINGTON GURNEY BRISTOL ROAD (east side)
6/59 The Old Parsonage 21.9.60 II*
Restaurant, former house. Late C17. Dressed and squared sandstone to entrance front, coursed rubble to rear, render to side walls. Freestone dressings, quoins and copings, plain and double Roman tile roofs. Entrance front of 2 storeys, 7 bays with 2 bays at each end advanced making a U shaped facade. Ground floor windows are cross mullions with pediments, upper are similar without pediments but openings in advanced wings have lost their mullions and transoms which have been replaced by 6 pane sashes. 2 blind upper windows with painted glazing bars to side walls of wings. Central doorway with bolection architrave and semi circular hood on ornately carved brackets. 8 raised and fielded panel door with 2 inserted lights. Rusticated quoins, dressed stone frieze with incised scroll decoration beneath deeply coved cornice. Balustraded parapet to central 3 bays. Rear front has similar cross mullions and central pedimented doorcase with carved brackets and a 4 raised and fielded panel door with 2 rectangular fanlights. Half-hipped roofs to advanced wings, end ball finials, one original stone stack to right hand wing, remaining 3 stacks renewed. Interior. Round-arched entrances with fluted pilasters in entrance lobby giving on to cross passage and spine corridor. Further arched entrances to principal rooms. Complete contemporary panelled room to ground floor left hand room. Open well staircase with fluted newel post, barley sugar balusters alternating with square, ramped handrail and panelled dado.
Listing NGR: ST6294555581
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32799
- 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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