BADMINTON SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY

BADMINTON SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY, WESTBURY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219803
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: BADMINTON SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY
Statutory Address:: BADMINTON SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY, WESTBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219803
Date first listed:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: BADMINTON SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY
Statutory Address 1:: BADMINTON SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY, WESTBURY ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BADMINTON SCHOOL AND ATTACHED WALL AND DOORWAY, WESTBURY 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 57148 76445

Details

BRISTOL

ST5776 WESTBURY ROAD, Stoke Bishop 901-1/28/2018 (West side) Badminton School and attached wall and doorway

II

House, now school. Mid C18, extended to NE mid C19. Render with limestone dressings, limestone ashlar, squared, coursed Carboniferous rubble, and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style with Jacobethan-style extension. Entrance front is a 2-storey; 2-window range, attached to 2-storey; 2-window range C19 block. The earlier house has a rendered, parapet wall, openings with keyed architraves, right-hand door and central canted bay with fluted angle pilasters; 6/6-pane first-floor sash, the rest C20 casements. C19 house to the left has a rubble plinth, quoins, cornice to ground and first floors, parapet and tall round finial columns to each corner. Right-hand porch has paired, attached 3/4 columns, round fluted ones to the inside, entablature and large gadrooned corner urns and a panelled parapet; keyed Tudor-arched doorway has 2-leaf 10-panel doors with anthemia to the top, and a gadrooned over-panel. Mullion and transom windows with ovolo mouldings and metal casements. The left side breaks forward, with tripartite windows, outer ones blind on the first floor, and a Dutch gable with round panels to a keyed oculus and blind balustrade. The left return has a similar left-hand projecting section, with a full-height central semicircular 4-light bow with outer windows, and right-hand paired 6-light windows, blocked to the ground floor; plain parapet with central and flanking round panels. A central square 3-stage tower set at an angle has open semicircular arches flanked by 3/4 Doric columns to an entablature, and semicircular-arched French doors and a fanlight; narrow first-floor windows with raised surrounds, third floor with oculi, and a square ogee copper dome with a weather vane. The rear elevation has a similar left-hand wing, and right-hand 12-light windows with flanking narrow windows as on the tower, and a gable above. INTERIOR: details of the C18 house include an axial passage with a semicircular panelled arch, and dogleg winder service stairs with a banded rail and curtail. The C19 house includes a large entrance hall with semicircular arches to each side with grotesque keys, and a ceiling divided by moulded beams, to a central stair hall with an Imperial stair with turned balusters and square newels, and ceiling rose. A good stone Jacobean style fireplace in the NE room has triple Ionic columns to the surround and overmantel, with entablature and cresting, a central heraldic panel of the City and flanking statues in niches, all decorated with strapwork; cornice and frieze, doors with round-topped panels; marble fireplaces in the other downstairs rooms and former bedrooms. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble wall extends approx 10m from SE corner, with a Jacobethan-style decorative doorway with raised quoins and pediment. A decorative and well-detailed house.

Listing NGR: ST5714876445

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 380846
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.