Church House
CHURCH HOUSE, WHITSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220220
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE, WHITSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220220
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE, WHITSON STREET
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:
- CHURCH HOUSE, WHITSON STREET
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 58879 73481
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE WHITSON STREET 901-1/11/347 (East side) 04/03/77 Church House (Formerly Listed as: WHITSON STREET Church House, Vicarage of the Church of St James)
GV II*
House. Dated 1666 on front plaque, altered C19. Rendered Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, timber-framed right-hand wall, rubble lateral and axial stacks and slate cross gabled roof. Single front and rear rooms divided by a stack with fireplaces each side, and right-hand C19 stair. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A steep gable parapeted each side, with limestone quoins to the right-hand side and ashlar dressings to the attic window, and late C19 tooled ashlar surround to small right-hand doorway. C18 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, with paired C19 plate-glass sashes to the attic, and late C17 keyed oculus in the top of the gable. 2 small shields over the doorway inscribed ETA and 1666. INTERIOR: a fine late C17 ground-floor full-width front room with full bolection-moulded panelling to a cornice, a panelled overmantel to left-hand fire surround, a fine carved overmantel to the rear with a Doric entablature beneath a central cartouche with helm and rocaille, and side sections set back with carved classical allegorical figures holding shields. A fine plaster ceiling in 2 sections with detailed panels, pomegranates and moulded bosses, separated by a panelled Jacobean-style beam with strapwork, and a frieze above the cornice with adorsal griffins; panelling flanking fireplace and overmantel in the rear ground-floor room; the first-floor front room has a small Tudor-arched cupboard on the front second-floor room to the left and a cyma-moulded and stopped beam; diagonal-braced timber-framed wall with re-used timbers. Plasterwork of similar style and content to that in the Llandoger Trow, King Street (qv), though better quality. Possibly part of a house with several gables, of which that to the Church of St James to the right (qv) may previously have been one.
Listing NGR: ST5887973480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380889
- 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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