University of Bristol, Geography Department
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1202652
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address:
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1202652
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY 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 58049 73282
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SW UNIVERSITY ROAD 901-1/10/315 (South East side) University of Bristol, Geography Department
GV II
University department. 1892. By F Bligh Bond. Red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, gable stacks and a slate roof. L-shaped double-depth plan. Collegiate Tudor Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys and basement; 6-window range. A 2-window gable, 3-window block to left and canted bay in the angle. Moulded plinth, sill and lintel string courses, cornice with carved heads and gargoyles and crenellated parapet, with coped gables. Front right-hand gable has clasping octagonal buttresses to cyma pepperpots with large crockets; 3-light mullion and transom windows, with cinquefoil heads on the ground floor, and curvilinear tracery to the first floor, flank an exterior chimney breast with 3 octagonal ashlar stacks to a crocketed gable. Similar windows as the ground floor to the remainder, separated by buttresses, with a Tudor-arched doorway in the right-hand bay under a 2-centred arch with an open work parapet above. Full-height canted bay in the re-entrant. INTERIOR: largely rebuilt mid C20 after a fire. Open-well stair with moulded rail. Originally the Medical School, and part of the first buildings for the new university designed by C Hansom, and adapted after his death by Bond. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 323; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 58).
Listing NGR: ST5804973282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 323
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 58
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