STONELEIGH HOUSE

STONELEIGH HOUSE, JACOB'S WELLS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202317
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: STONELEIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STONELEIGH HOUSE, JACOB'S WELLS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202317
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: STONELEIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STONELEIGH HOUSE, JACOB'S WELLS 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:: STONELEIGH HOUSE, JACOB'S WELLS 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 57703 73014

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773SE JACOB'S WELLS ROAD 901-1/9/126 (West side) 04/03/77 Stoneleigh House

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Formerly known as: Hill's Almshouses JACOB'S WELLS ROAD. Almshouses. Dated 1867. By Charles Hansom. Red Pennant snecked rubble, limestone dressings, ashlar ridge, lateral and exterior stacks, and a tiled cross gabled roof with decorative ridge tiles. Single-depth E-shaped plan, with rear chapel. Tudor Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys; 10-window range. A near-symmetrical front has projecting end gables and central full-height hipped porch, and a flush raised area between the wings with a balustrade in 5 sections of trefoil-headed arches. The porch has diagonal ground-floor buttresses, a 2-centred arched blocked doorway with hood stops, and a 3-light mullion and transom window above with carved shield panels. The wings have roll-top copings to the gables and inner sub-gables, heraldic finial with iron flag to the left one, and an exterior stack to the right. Mullion and transom windows with metal casements and stopped label moulds: the left gable has 2 ground-floor cross windows and a blind inner 2-centred arched window with attached columns, and a first-floor canted oriel with moulded base and upper panels with carved shields, and a steep weathered top. Right gable has a similar inner arched window, and two 1-light windows to the left of the stack. Either side of the porch are 3-light windows, and inner 1-light windows, and in the returns are inner 2-centred arched doorways, and 2-light arcades of 2-centred arched windows beside them. The right return has a 5-window range, with a right-hand full-height canted bay with a steep hipped roof, 2 cross windows to the left, and two 2-light windows to the middle with a central plaque. Moulded eaves with carved heads. The rear has projecting gables, linked by a 2-storey 9-bay cast-iron verandah of 2-centre arches with trefoils in the spandrels, a panelled screen below the first-floor windows, all now with C20 glazing. Doorways inside to individual flats have 2-centre arches and strap hinges. The chapel has coped gables with gableted kneelers, sill band, E window with shallow 2-centre arch and 3-light tracery window, and three 3-light side windows with ogee heads. Stacks have corbelled cornices and chamfered sides. INTERIOR: extensively remodelled and modernised; chapel roof obscured. Carries the Merchant Venturer's arms, and known as TW Hill's almshouses. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 316).

Listing NGR: ST5770373014

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Legacy System number:: 379836
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Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 316

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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.