WICKHAM COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS

WICKHAM COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1 AND 2, WICKHAM HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1220291
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: WICKHAM COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: WICKHAM COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1 AND 2, WICKHAM HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1220291
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: WICKHAM COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: WICKHAM COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1 AND 2, WICKHAM HILL

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:: WICKHAM COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, 1 AND 2, WICKHAM 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 61956 76177

Details

BRISTOL

ST6176 WICKHAM HILL, Stapleton 901-1/29/1975 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.1 AND 2 Wickham Court and attached walls (Formerly Listed as: WICKHAM HILL Wickham Court, No.1-4 (Consec))

GV II*

House. Early C17. Pennant rubble with double Roman tiled roof. Double-depth plan with left-hand cross-wing. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. Central gable with flanking 2-storey blocks, with 2 doors to right of the gable, the right-hand one with a large stone lintel and 6-panel door, glazed at the top and fielded in the middle; C20 glazed door to the left, and stone boot scrapers. Leaded metal casements with interlacing at the top and some green glass, set in 2- and 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows to the gable, first floor and attic; plain cross windows with glazing bars on the ground floor and to the right. INTERIOR: central rear dogleg winder stair with splat balusters and vase newels with pendants, leading to an observation platform in the top of the rear stair tower; scrolled window catches and angled stanchion bars; deeply chamfered beams with chamfer stops, and studded doors with 9 panels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble garden wall extends approx 100m to SW. HISTORICAL NOTE: Cromwell and Fairfax are believed to have held council here before the march on Bristol in August 1645. An important house with a good and fairly complete interior. The garden wall follows the line of the former Gloucester Road up from Wickham Bridge (qv).

Listing NGR: ST6195676177

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Legacy System number:: 380895
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.