UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202652
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202652
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT
Statutory Address 1:: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY 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:: 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
Crick, C , Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 58
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 323

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.