Napier Cottages
NAPIER COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, KINGS WESTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202336
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Napier Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- NAPIER COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, KINGS WESTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202336
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Napier Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- NAPIER COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, KINGS WESTON LANE
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:
- NAPIER COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, KINGS WESTON LANE
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 54378 77413
Details
BRISTOL
ST5477 KINGS WESTON LANE, Shirehampton 901-1/24/1739 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.1, 2 AND 3 Napier Cottages
GV II
Terrace of 3 houses. Early C18, perhaps by Vanbrugh and contemporaneous with Kings Weston (qv). Limestone rubble and dressings, brick exterior stacks and pantile roof. Single-depth L-shaped plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Entrances in the returns, with a heavy left return chimney breasts, stone lintels to Nos 1 & 2 to the right, and brick to No.3 to the left. 3 right-hand ground-floor windows have large Mannerist stepped voussoirs and a key which rises to the sill above with sashes, and a central, segmental-headed window flanked by flat-headed ones, with casements. Later left-hand extension has 6/6-pane ground-floor sash and a 4-light canted oriel with a curved base in the end gable. INTERIOR not inspected. Notable for '...enormous voussoirs of obviously Vanbrugian derivation,' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 112).
Listing NGR: ST5437477416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379891
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 112
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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