The Wylands, British Telecom Training Centre
THE WYLANDS, BRITISH TELECOM TRAINING CENTRE, LOWER HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206419
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Wylands, British Telecom Training Centre
- Statutory Address:
- THE WYLANDS, BRITISH TELECOM TRAINING CENTRE, LOWER HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206419
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Wylands, British Telecom Training Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WYLANDS, BRITISH TELECOM TRAINING CENTRE, LOWER HIGH STREET
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 WYLANDS, BRITISH TELECOM TRAINING CENTRE, LOWER HIGH STREET
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 52934 77170
Details
BRISTOL
ST57NW LOWER HIGH STREET, Shirehampton 901-1/52/1750 (West side) 04/03/77 The Wylands, British Telecom Training Centre (Formerly Listed as: LOWER HIGH STREET (North side) Post Office Regional School, south-west District (The Wylands))
II
House, now training centre. 1905. By F Bligh Bond. Brick with limestone dressings, brick ridge stacks and Cornish slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has quoins and a projecting centre, with a swan's-neck segmental pediment on scrolled corbels and an oculus under a swagged panel, and a 2-storey fully-glazed oriel stair light; windows have rubbed brick flat-arches with grotesque keys to 12/12-pane sashes, with ground-floor plat band and shutters; deep, sprocketed eaves have brackets and swagged, scrolled corner brackets, 5 dormers have alternate triangular and segmental pediments and casement windows, and an open square cupola. The right-hand elevation has a projecting single-storey parapeted porch: Ionic columns with barleysugar fluting to a bracketed segmental canopy, coffered underneath, and a semicircular-arched doorway with a timber fanlight and 6-panel door; a semicircular-arched 2-light arcade to the left side. To the right is a symmetrical elevation with a pedimented centre stepped forward, a 12/12-pane ground-floor sash window flanked by oculi, and a semicircular-arched central first-floor window. INTERIOR: central hall with arched openings and oval ceiling panel, and a dogleg stair with square, moulded balusters and newels. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 400).
Listing NGR: ST5293477170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379960
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 400
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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