Rodney Lodge
RODNEY LODGE, CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205803
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Rodney Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- RODNEY LODGE, CLIFTON DOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205803
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Rodney Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- RODNEY LODGE, CLIFTON DOWN 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:
- RODNEY LODGE, CLIFTON DOWN 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 57064 73228
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SW CLIFTON DOWN ROAD, Clifton 901-1/8/768 (East side) 04/03/77 Rodney Lodge
GV II
House, now college. c1770. Extended and altered 1884 by C Hansom. Limestone ashlar and render, party wall stacks and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style with late Victorian alterations and extension. 3 storeys, 2-storey wings; 8-window range. Presumably a Palladian house, considerably altered: 3-window centre has a projecting 1884 ground floor, C18 upper floors with modillion cornice and parapet. Banded ground floor with a balustrade, architrave to segmental-arched doorway with overlight and 8-panel door, a segmental pediment on the balustrade above, and carved consoles. Segmental arches over paired ground-floor windows with eared architraves and keys. First-floor windows have C19 architraves, moulded keys and shallow segmental pediments to 4/4-pane sashes, and shallow surrounds to 3/3-pane second-floor sashes. The left-hand block has rusticated ground floor and rendered first floor, a left-hand doorway with Gibbs surround, overlight and 6-panel door, and 2 first-floor windows with ashlar surrounds to 6/6-panes sashes. The C19 right-hand block has first- and second-floor cornices, central doorway with banded jambs and a deep bracketed canopy, Gibbs surrounds to ground-floor windows, plain first-floor windows above and a central elliptical-arched window with a pediment and cartouche; plate-glass sashes. Rear elevation fairly unaltered with a large central stair light with semicircular-arched galzing bars. INTERIOR: some C18 features, a dogleg winder stair in the left-hand block with stick balusters and column newels, mostly C19, including an open-well stair to the centre, 6-panel doors and cornices; fine fireplaces have Wedgwood panels. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 263).
Listing NGR: ST5706473228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379225
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 263
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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