PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL

PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204095
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1991
List Entry Name:: PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL
Statutory Address:: PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204095
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1991
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL

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:: PURDOWN HOSPITAL, CASTLE AND SCREEN WALL, BELL HILL

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 61377 76207

Details

BRISTOL

ST6176 BELL HILL, Stapleton 901-1/29/1937 (West side) 27/09/91 Purdown Hospital, Castle and screen wall (Formerly Listed as: BEECH HILL, Stapleton Tower and screen wall, Purdown Hospital)

II

Tower and screen wall. Mid C18. By Thomas Wright. Random Pennant rubble and dressings. Round tower. 2 set-backs articulate the tower; varied fenestration. Lancet doorway with double door and barred tympanum, and lancet windows with alternate blue and red voussoirs with tooled faces. Screen wall to left to the base of a second tower, with 2 crossed arrow slits low in the wall, now incorporated into a late C19 house (not included). INTERIOR not inspected. Probably an eye-catcher as part of Thomas Wright's landscape park for Stoke Park House, and related to his Ragged Castle at Badminton. Illustrated by Loxton c1900. (Loxton S: Bristol: 1900-1910: W 1387; Bristol As It Was: Bristol's Suburbs Long Ago: Bristol: 255).

Listing NGR: ST6137776207

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 378949
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Loxton, SL , Loxtons Bristol, (1992)
Winstone, R, Bristols Suburbs Long Ago, (1985), 255
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,

Legal

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