CLIFTON COLLEGE, SCHOOL HOUSE

CLIFTON COLLEGE, SCHOOL HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187194
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, SCHOOL HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187194
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, SCHOOL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, SCHOOL HOUSE, COLLEGE 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:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, SCHOOL HOUSE, COLLEGE ROAD

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

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 56937 73854

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673NE COLLEGE ROAD, Clifton 901-1/1/828 (North East side) 01/11/66 Clifton College, School House (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE ROAD, Clifton Clifton College Big School, School House and Wilson Tower)

GV II

Boarding house. 1862. By Charles Hansom. Brandon Hill Grit with limestone dressings, ridge stacks and a cross gabled slate roof. Collegiate Tudor Gothic Revival style. Single-depth plan round 2 internal courtyards. 2 storeys and attic; 12-window range. Asymmetrical elevations; that facing SE has a central projecting gabled wing with a large 2-storey canted 4-light bay with weathered roof, separated by a panelled band, with a 3-light mullion and transom window above; large cross-gabled eaves dormers to each side. To the right, 5 paired windows under a continuous drip, with triple windows at each end, and a left-hand door; 4 eaves dormers with barge-boards, with 2 smaller louvred dormers above. To the left are 2 large paired windows, a right-hand doorway with a 3-light overlight, and 2 dormers. Projecting gabled wing has a 2-storey canted 3-light bay with paired attic windows. Paired left-hand window. The left return has 2 gabled ends to parallel ranges with a small gable in between with external stacks. Rear elevation to Guthrie Road has an irregular 10-window range, with a left-hand gable and oriel, central exterior stack, 3 gabled dormer and mullion windows. The right return is symmetrical with outer gables and central rendered section. INTERIOR not inspected. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 320; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 419).

Listing NGR: ST5693773854

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 379324
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 320
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 419

Legal

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