BLAISE CASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL

BLAISE CASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, HENBURY ROAD, BS10 7QS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279500
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: BLAISE CASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address:: BLAISE CASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, HENBURY ROAD, BS10 7QS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279500
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: BLAISE CASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL
Statutory Address 1:: BLAISE CASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, HENBURY ROAD, BS10 7QS

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:: BLAISE CASTLE HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, HENBURY ROAD, BS10 7QS

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 56199 78725

Details

ST 5678 NW, 901-1/17/1370

BRISTOL, HENBURY ROAD, Henbury (South West side), Blaise Castle House and attached wall

(Formerly Listed as: HENBURY ROAD (West side) Blaise Castle House (City Museum))

08.01.59

G.V.

II*

House, now museum. 1795-9. By William Paty. For JS Harford. Extended 1831-2 by CR Cockerell for J Harford Junior. Limestone ashlar and render with a slate roof. Double-depth plan around a central hall. Neoclassical style. 2 storeys; 5-window range. 1:3:1 fenestration with a pedimented and slightly projecting centre. A central semicircular Ionic portico on a low platform, banded square-cut rustication to the ground floor, first-floor plat band, modillion cornice and balustrade. An exedra behind the portico has 2 niches and a swag frieze with bucrania, a half-glazed door with a fine fanlight; 6/6-pane sashes with thick bars, with moulded architraves below sunken panels on the first floor. Garden front remodelled c1832, a central ground-floor arcade with French windows, altered to match those of the Ionic tetrastyle portico to the right, added by Cockerell as an Exhibition Room. To left of front a lower 2-storey service wing, extended by Cockerell, of L-shape plan with front left wing; facade of 1831-2 is rendered with rusticated ground floor beneath a plat band, moulded cornice and balustrade; 3/3-pane sashes in moulded architraves. INTERIOR: a complete Neoclassical decorative scheme by Cockerell, with statuary collected by Harford Jnr. on his 1832 Italian tour. Large Portland-flagged hall with square columns and medallions; wide, central open-well stair with moulded stone steps and cast-iron balusters, with panels from the Parthenon and a niche with a Michelangelo cast; plaster panels and cornices to the walls and ceilings, marble and plaster fireplaces, with a cast-iron basket in the Dining Room; the Library has fluted Corinthian columns; the Exhibition Room has scagliola distyle-in-antis Corinthian columns, wainscotting, and an oval lantern with a plaster surround; the first-floor stair well has balustraded arches; mahogany 6-panel doors; a dogleg stair in the service wing has stone treads and cast-iron balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: an attached rubble wall enclosing the yard to the east end, ramped up to 2 segmental-arched openings with Pennant dressings. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house is set in a landscape planned c1796 by Humphry Repton, John Nash's partner at the time, whose Red Book is preserved in the House, and Nash may through Repton have had an influence on the house.

(Gomme, A., Jenner, M. and Little, B.,: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 264; The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N.,: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 468; Temple, N.,: John Nash and the Village Picturesque: Gloucester: 1979-).

Listing NGR: ST5619978725

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Legacy System number:: 379717
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 264
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 468
Temple, N , John Nash and the Village Picturesque, (1979)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,

Legal

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