Stoke House, Clifton Theological College, and Attached Rear Kitchen
STOKE HOUSE, CLIFTON THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, AND ATTACHED REAR KITCHEN, STOKE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208857
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke House, Clifton Theological College, and Attached Rear Kitchen
- Statutory Address:
- STOKE HOUSE, CLIFTON THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, AND ATTACHED REAR KITCHEN, STOKE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208857
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Stoke House, Clifton Theological College, and Attached Rear Kitchen
- Statutory Address 1:
- STOKE HOUSE, CLIFTON THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, AND ATTACHED REAR KITCHEN, STOKE HILL
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:
- STOKE HOUSE, CLIFTON THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, AND ATTACHED REAR KITCHEN, STOKE HILL
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 56376 75509
Details
BRISTOL
ST5675 STOKE HILL, Stoke Bishop 901-1/31/2012 (North East side) 08/01/59 Stoke House, Clifton Theological College, and attached rear kitchen block (Formerly Listed as: STOKE HILL (North East side) Clifton Theological College, Stoke House)
II*
House, now college. Dated 1669. Extended mid C18, extended and partly refaced 1872 by Foster and Wood. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, ashlar end-gable stacks and tiled double-pile roof. Early centralised double-depth plan with a central hall. Jacobean style with Jacobethan Revival-style refacing. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. 3 ogee gables and a full-height central porch; a fine late C17 ashlar doorcase has helical columns to naive Corinthian capitals, a segmental pediment over an elliptical doorway, with a heraldic cartouche flanked by angels, and a date panel; above is a pedimented cross window, and to the sides of the porch are late C17 rectangular panels with oval lights, and broken pediments on the ground floor and segmental pediments above; similar lights in the gables. Either side are C19 two-storey bays with bowed fronts and 5 curved and 2 flanking plate-glass sashes with mullions and transoms. Strapwork parapets to bays and porch; in the valley behind a crenellated flat roof above the stair well; 3 groups of 4 ashlar gable stacks in the plain end gables, and ogee gables to rear either side of the stair. INTERIOR: a quadripartite vault on carved springers to the porch; a large central hall with vine-leaf cornice, doorways with eared architraves and panelled reveals, and a fine C17 newel-framed stair with wainscotting, restored mid C19, with carved splat balusters and panelled newels with open pyramid tops and pendants; C18 dogleg stair in the right-hand rear extension, with turned balusters and column newels and a ramped rail; stairs to the attic have turned balusters and panelled newels with ball finials. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached square 3-storey kitchen block to the rear with gables to each side and cross windows. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 474).
Listing NGR: ST5637675509
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380621
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 474
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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