Air Balloon Hill Council Schools Instruction Centre
AIR BALLOON HILL COUNCIL SCHOOLS INSTRUCTION CENTRE, HILLSIDE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208458
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Air Balloon Hill Council Schools Instruction Centre
- Statutory Address:
- AIR BALLOON HILL COUNCIL SCHOOLS INSTRUCTION CENTRE, HILLSIDE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208458
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Air Balloon Hill Council Schools Instruction Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- AIR BALLOON HILL COUNCIL SCHOOLS INSTRUCTION CENTRE, HILLSIDE 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:
- AIR BALLOON HILL COUNCIL SCHOOLS INSTRUCTION CENTRE, HILLSIDE 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 63190 73437
Details
BRISTOL
ST67SW HILLSIDE ROAD, St George 901-1/56/1840 (North side) Air Balloon Hill Council Schools, Instruction Centre
GV II
Instruction centre. 1905. By Latrobe and Weston. Pennant rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, lateral stacks and double Roman tile hipped, gabled roofs. Single-depth plan, right-hand hall and left-hand caretaker's house. Single storey; 6-window range hall. A gabled right-hand end with large lunette over 3 windows, the front has 4/4-pane sashes and a corbel table to the eaves. 2-storey house has a central lateral stack, pyramidal roof, the left-hand corner is angled and set forward with 2 windows and a small gable inscribed 1905 with Art Nouveau flowers. A central doorway has wide, flat buttresses to a parapet, with a segmental arch set back beneath a corbelled band and a panel inscribed MANUAL INSTRUCTION CENTRE. The left return has Art Nouveau flowers, a lateral stack and central segmental pediment. Part of a group with the Junior School (qv) and Infant School (qv), and sharing many details with them. A fine composition by one of the few Bristol architects to experiment with Art Nouveau.
Listing NGR: ST6319073437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379786
- 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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