Oriel House

ORIEL HOUSE, 45, COTHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207750
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
Oriel House
Statutory Address:
ORIEL HOUSE, 45, COTHAM ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1207750
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Oriel House
Statutory Address 1:
ORIEL HOUSE, 45, COTHAM 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ORIEL HOUSE, 45, COTHAM 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 58634 74082

Details

BRISTOL

ST315874 COTHAM ROAD, Cotham 901-1/35/1187 (West side) 04/03/77 No.45 Oriel House (Formerly Listed as: COTHAM ROAD (North side) No.45)

II

House. c1845. Limestone ashlar with ashlar ridge stacks and slate roof with a hip behind the right-hand gable. Double-depth plan. Tudor Revival style. 2 storeys; 5-window range. 3 irregular sections, each stepping slightly forward of that to the left. The central gabled one has a left-hand porch with a shouldered gable and Tudor-arched doorway, and a similar 4-panel door set back within it; the gable has round Tudor finials with diagonal patterning, that to the right at the top of a narrow buttress. The windows have Tudor-arched heads to casements with a horizontal glazing bar, and label moulds. The middle gable has a 3-light ground-floor window beneath a canted 4-light oriel. The right-hand gable has a narrow full-height bay with 3 lights, without labels; either side of the gable are single-light windows, those to the right being blind. The left-hand gable has 3-light windows to ground and first floors; a matching gable in the left return. INTERIOR: large hall flagged with Portland stone, 3 arched recesses in the right wall with a fireplace in the middle, square piers to 4-centre arches separating the rear open-well stair, which has stone treads, cast-iron balusters and twisted newels; large stained-glass stair window to the rear; 4-panel doors and shutters; the left-hand room has a pendant ceiling rose and folding doors at the end to a conservatory.

Listing NGR: ST5863474082

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Legacy System number:
379448
Legacy System:
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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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