The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol
The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220433
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol
- Statutory Address:
- The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220433
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG
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:
- The Fry Building (School of Mathematics), University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG
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 58142 73281
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 February 2024 to update the name and address, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
ST5873SW
901-1/10/354
BRISTOL
WOODLAND ROAD (west side)
University of Bristol
The Fry Building (School of Mathematics)
(Formerly listed as University of Bristol, Department of Chemistry, WOODLAND ROAD, previously listed as: UNIVERSITY ROAD Departments of Botany and Zoology, University of Bristol)
04/03/77
GV
II
University department. 1909. By Sir George Oatley. Coursed red Pennant rubble with limestone ashlar and dressings, lateral stacks and Cornish slate roof. L-shaped double-depth plan. Collegiate Tudor Gothic Revival style.
Irregular series of stepped blocks, with moulded plinth, strings, cornice with carved heads and corner gargoyles, and crenellated parapet. Left-hand three storeys; 3:1:3 windows separated by buttresses, wide mullion and transom windows; left-hand block has a small Arts and Crafts style slate-hung gable to roof with swept eaves and small leaded dormers. To the right is a two storey canted bay with a parapet. To the right is a two stage entrance tower set in the re-entrant with a wing extending back, has clasping buttresses with panelled tops; a projecting ashlar doorcase has an elliptical-arched doorway with a studded oak two-leaf door, under a two-centred arched window with cusped blind spandrels. Above is a canted three-light two storey oriel with a moulded base, ogee heads and ashlar tracery panel, and blind tracery parapet. Elliptical-arched cross window to the top beneath a band of quatrefoils and cornice with carved heads, and a carved panel with a shield in stepped crenellations. To the right is a three-sided two storey bay in a re-entrant beneath a square stair turret. Right-hand wing extends back, a six-window range, the right half broken forward.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has two-centred arches with panelled soffits; three facing arches to stairs and central lift.
Listing NGR: ST5814273281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380916
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 323
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
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