POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST, FORMER KINGS WESTON STABLES

POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST, FORMER KINGS WESTON STABLES, NAPIER MILES ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187199
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST, FORMER KINGS WESTON STABLES
Statutory Address:: POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST, FORMER KINGS WESTON STABLES, NAPIER MILES ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187199
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST, FORMER KINGS WESTON STABLES
Statutory Address 1:: POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST, FORMER KINGS WESTON STABLES, NAPIER MILES 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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Location

Statutory Address:: POLICE STATION AND ATTACHED WALLS TO NORTH EAST AND SOUTH WEST, FORMER KINGS WESTON STABLES, NAPIER MILES 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 54315 77607

Details

BRISTOL

ST5477 NAPIER MILES ROAD, Shirehampton 901-1/24/1752 (North West side) 08/01/59 Police Station and attached walls to NE and SW, former Kings Weston stables (Formerly Listed as: NAPIER MILES ROAD (North side) Kings Weston Police Station)

GV II*

Stables, now police station. 1763. By Robert Mylne. Limestone ashlar and slate roof. 3 sides to a quadrangle, single-depth plan. 2 storeys; 14-window range. A symmetrical arrangement with a tall central semicircular archway in a pedimented gatehouse with a clock; either side are arcades of 3 semicircular arches linked by impost blocks with 6/6-pane ground-floor sashes and lunettes in the arches, and 4-arch arcades extending forward with vehicle doorways at the end; cornice and parapet. Pedimented end gables have blind semicircular arches and flat-headed niches around them and a blind oculus in the pediment. INTERIOR: rebuilt within the original walls for police accommodation in 1959. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble walls extend approx 50m NE and SW of front wings, with central gateways with capped piers, and terminating in piers formerly with ball finials. Formerly the stables to Kings Weston House (qv). The attached walls mirror those attached to the lodges of the former kitchen garden (qv) opposite.

Listing NGR: ST5430777599

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