The White House
THE WHITE HOUSE, 26, OAKFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202391
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 26, OAKFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202391
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 26, OAKFIELD 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:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 26, OAKFIELD 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:
- ST5755273656
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773NE OAKFIELD ROAD, Clifton
901-1/3/900 (South East side)
08/01/59 No.26
The White House
(Formerly Listed as:
OAKFIELD ROAD
(South side)
No.26
Central Electricity House)
GV II
Formerly known as: Oakfield House OAKFIELD ROAD Clifton.
House, now offices. Dated 1850. By Charles Dyer. Stucco with
limestone dressings, gable stacks, roof not visible.
Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys, basement and
attic; 5-window range.
A symmetrical front has an attic to the middle section, and
1-window outer blocks; a plain ground floor to a band, paired
giant pilasters with foliate capitals to the centre, plain
ones to the outside, a moulded first-floor sill band, frieze
and cornice, and tall parapet with 3 sections of balustrade
with slim column balusters over the windows.
A large porch has columns to acanthus capitals and a dentil
entablature, plate-glass overlight and C20 two-leaf doors;
inscribed on the left side CHARLES DYER/1850. Windows have
architraves and cornices, with consoles on the first floor, to
6/6-pane sashes. Small first-floor windows set between the
pilasters have margin panes, and taller first-floor 4/4-pane
sashes; 3/3-pane attic sashes.
The side elevations have chimney breasts separated by a blind
window, and stacks linked above the parapet by a semicircular
arch, the right-hand one containing a section of balustrade.
Rear elevation as the front, but with a central wide bow
between the pilasters, with a tripartite window, a frieze of
paterae and a balustrade above.
INTERIOR: central hall with a left-hand stair well containing
a good open-well winder stair, with stone treads and a smooth
soffit, cast-iron balusters with anthemia, and a ramped rail
supporting a late C19 lamp; to the left of the entrance is an
enclosed service stair with a dogleg winder with stick
balusters. First-floor fireplaces have paired pilasters and
doors to the firebasket; cornices with palmettes, 4-panel
doors and panelled shutters. Vaulted basement areas, and
half-glazed doors to the front with margin bars.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 266; Mowl T: To Build The Second
City: Bristol: 1991-: 143).
Listing NGR: ST5755273656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380034
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 143
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 266
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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