Ashley Down House
ASHLEY DOWN HOUSE, 16, COTHAM PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207684
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Down House
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLEY DOWN HOUSE, 16, COTHAM PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207684
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Down House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHLEY DOWN HOUSE, 16, COTHAM PARK
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:
- ASHLEY DOWN HOUSE, 16, COTHAM PARK
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 58522 74103
Details
BRISTOL
ST315874 COTHAM PARK, Cotham 901-1/35/1162 (North side) 04/03/77 No.16 Ashley Down House (Formerly Listed as: COTHAM PARK (North side) No.16 Cotham Lodge)
GV II
Marked on OS as Cotham Lodge. House. c1850. Limestone ashlar, ashlar gable stacks and a slate hip roof. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys and attic; 3-window range. A symmetrical front articulated forward slightly at the ends and centre, with banded rustication to the ground floor to a cornice, paired first-floor Tuscan pilasters to the projecting sections, a frieze, modillion cornice and parapet between dormer openings. A deep, central, flagged Corinthian portico has 2 pairs of columns to an entablature, over a doorway with an architrave to a 2-leaf half-glazed door. Tripartite ground-floor windows have 6/6-pane sashes down to the ground, flanked by 1/1-pane sashes; first-floor windows above have shouldered architraves and console cornices to 6/6-pane sashes. To the right is a lower windowless block with projecting centre, rusticated ground floor and panelled first floor, a central niche and a C20 inserted 2/2-pane sash to the left end. Left return in 3 sections articulated by paired pilasters, has the pedimented centre break forward with an eagle on top, and a single-storey stone conservatory with tall casements with glazing bars, and a balustrade. INTERIOR: C20 glazed screen to a large central hall with modillion cornice, divided by a flat arch on acanthus consoles from a good open-well stair with moulded string and soffit, cast-iron balusters, and curtail with wreathed rail; back stairs to the right have stick balusters and column newels; 6-panel doors with panelled reveals, a good stained-glass rear stair window, and 8-panel shutters.
Listing NGR: ST5852274103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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