Western House
WESTERN HOUSE, COTHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207773
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Western House
- Statutory Address:
- WESTERN HOUSE, COTHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207773
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Western House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTERN HOUSE, 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.
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:
- WESTERN HOUSE, 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 58196 73920
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873NW COTHAM ROAD, Cotham 901-1/4/1166 (North side) 01/11/66 Western House (Formerly Listed as: COTHAM ROAD (North side) University Board Office and No.1)
GV II*
Formerly known as: Western College COTHAM ROAD. Congregationalist college, now offices. 1905-6. By Henry Dare Bryan. Limestone ashlar, ashlar stacks and tiled roof with shingled lanterns. Butterfly plan with 3 linked single-depth blocks. Arts and Crafts style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 11-window range. A wide symmetrical front with angled wings to a central porch with flanking octagonal towers and a gabled hall behind. A keyed semicircular-arched doorway has Jacobean Doric columns with strapwork lower sections, a Doric entablature and 2-leaf oak doors. Above is a 4-light mullion window flanked by Jacobean-style pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and cornice, and tall parapet. The towers have a cornice with spouts on grotesque head corbels and an openwork parapet, with steep pyramidal shingle-hung roofs with lead finials. Behind is the hall gable with a small 3-light window, and a large shingle-hung louvred ridge topped by an octagonal one with a weather vane. Ground-floor stone mullion and 2 transom leaded casements, with 6-light widows either side of the porch, and 9-light windows in the wings; one window in from the ends are wide canted bays that extend up through the overhanging eaves, with a central 9-light window on both floors, to a parapet and a tile-hung dormer; on the ridge behind are small lanterns. The end gables have octagonal clasping buttresses with barleysugar tops and ball finials, large external stacks with tiled bases to 3 diagonally-set stacks, small panels carved with an open book, and lion-head gutter spouts. The rear gable of the hall has a large mullion and transom window. INTERIOR: fine and complete, a full-height aisled central hall with a timber gallery on elliptical arches and carved Doric columns, to a semicircular vaulted roof with vine-carved ribs; 3/4 panelled wainscotting throughout, with good doorcases to the rear of the hall with fluted pilasters to a segmental pediment; stair hall to the left has an open-well stair with a pulvinated uncut string, strapwork carving, turned balusters and square newels, and a panelled ceiling; the Common Room has a wide Tudor arch with stopped jambs above a small Tudor-arched fireplace, and a fitted dresser with a dentil cornice; Tudor-arched fireplaces in other rooms; 1/2-glazed doors; the service block to the rear has 2 built-in dressers, a tiled pantry and a 'Gradient' range. A fine example in this style by a distinguished local architect, and considered to be Bristol's best Arts and Crafts building. (The Builder: 1905-: 276; Gray A S: Edwardian Architecture: London: 1985-: 126).
Listing NGR: ST5819673920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gray, A S, Edwardian Architecture A Biographical Dictionary, (1985), 126
The Builder in The Builder, (1905), 276
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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