Ferns Hill Quakers Meet
FERNS HILL, KINGS WESTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202340
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ferns Hill Quakers Meet
- Statutory Address:
- FERNS HILL, KINGS WESTON ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202340
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ferns Hill Quakers Meet
- Statutory Address 1:
- FERNS HILL, KINGS WESTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- QUAKERS MEET, KINGS WESTON 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:
- FERNS HILL, KINGS WESTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- QUAKERS MEET, KINGS WESTON 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 54938 78145
Details
BRISTOL
ST57NW KINGS WESTON ROAD, Lawrence Weston 901-1/52/1569 (North side) 04/03/77 Ferns Hill and Quakers Meet (Formerly Listed as: KINGS WESTON ROAD Ferns Hill)
GV II
Quaker meeting house, now part of an attached pair of houses. 1718 meeting house, 1780 house, C19 extensions. Roughcast rubble with a hipped pantile roof. L-shaped house with the meeting house in the angle, double-depth plan. Single storey; 3-window range meeting house, 2-storey; 4-window range house. The early C18 meeting house to the middle of the SE front has a central semicircular-arched doorway with a dated lintel and fanlight, and flanking windows with moulded architraves and 16/16 sashes with thick glazing bars, that to the left opened up to form a doorway to Ferns Hill; steep hipped roof. The late C18 house has a parapet with a moulded coping, formerly to corner pilasters; mostly C19 tripartite sashes, a cast-iron verandah to the left and a cast-iron balcony in the left return. INTERIOR: traces of a domed ceiling in the meeting house; Ferns Hill has a C18 vaulted stone cellar and well, a dogleg stair with column-on-vase balusters, ramped rail and curtail, and C19 plaster decoration. A meeting house was on the site from 1670, and meetings ceased in 1893. (An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels...in Central England: Stell C: Gloucestershire: London: 1986-: 65).
Listing NGR: ST5493878145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379899
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 65
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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