Bengough's Almshouses and Attached Walls, Railings, Balustrades
BENGOUGH'S ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, BALUSTRADES, HORFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208562
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bengough's Almshouses and Attached Walls, Railings, Balustrades
- Statutory Address:
- BENGOUGH'S ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, BALUSTRADES, HORFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208562
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bengough's Almshouses and Attached Walls, Railings, Balustrades
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENGOUGH'S ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, BALUSTRADES, HORFIELD ROAD
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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:
- BENGOUGH'S ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED WALLS, RAILINGS, BALUSTRADES, HORFIELD 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 58496 73446
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE HORFIELD ROAD 901-1/11/121 (West side) 31/07/86 Bengough's Almshouses and attached walls, railings, balustrades (Formerly Listed as: HORFIELD ROAD (West side) Bengough's Almhouses with boundary wall and steps)
II
Almshouses. Dated 1878. By Foster and Wood. Brick with limestone dressings, ridge stacks and a hipped double Roman tiled roof. 5 single-depth plan blocks to 3 sides of a courtyard. 2 storeys and basement; 5:3:7:3:5-window ranges. Jacobethan style. Full-width central range with short projecting wings linked to lower side blocks, set to a falling site, with rusticated quoins, plinth band, ground-floor cornice band and first-floor sill bands, and a deep coved cornice. The central range has a pedimented 3-window centre set forward, with recessed central section to a semicircular arch within the pediment with a coffered soffit, containing a large open Jacobean-style porch with attached Ionic columns on panelled pedestals with strapwork above, pulvinated frieze to an open segmental pediment with a good painted cartouche, to a semicircular-arched keyed doorway with double 6-panel doors; the first-floor window above set between banded strips, attached Ionic columns to acanthus brackets and a steep pediment with the centre broken back, inscribed ERECTED 1878/ FOUNDED BY HENRY BENGOUGH 1818, and flanking urns. The lower wings have inner semicircular-arched doorways with attached ball finials, and the lower side blocks have central gabled porches with banded corners, pilasters, to semicircular-arched doorways as the centre. Moulded cross windows have pulvinated friezes and cornices to metal casement, 3-light windows flanking the central porch, with raised panels between the floors. 1-window ends to the street, that to the left has an elliptical carriage arch with panelled jambs. INTERIOR: entrance hall to a central open dogleg stair with turned balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front walls between the 2 ends have wrought-iron railings with barleysugar stanchions, ball finials and double wrought-iron gates, to central steps up dividing to each side beneath a balustrade with square balusters, ball finials to panelled dies, and railings to the porches. 'A learned pastiche of an unlearned [artisan Dutch Renaissance] style' (Gomme). Part of Bristol's fine group of almshouses. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 316; The Builder: London: 386; City of Bristol: City Engineer's Building Grant Plans: Bristol Record Office: 1851-: FOL 83).
Listing NGR: ST5851173434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379797
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 316
The Builder, (12 December 1930)
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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