Southville Community Centre

SOUTHVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE, BEAULEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281398
Date first listed:
30-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Southville Community Centre
Statutory Address:
SOUTHVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE, BEAULEY ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281398
Date first listed:
30-May-1986
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Southville Community Centre
Statutory Address 1:
SOUTHVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE, BEAULEY ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
SOUTHVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE, BEAULEY 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 58009 71826

Details

BRISTOL

ST315871 BEAULEY ROAD, Bedminster 901-1/45/364 (North side) 30/05/86 Southville Community Centre (Formerly Listed as: BEAULEY ROAD Ashton Park Lower School including walls, railings, gates & caretaker's house)

II

Board school, now community centre. c1895. By Edward Gabriel. For Bristol School Board. Brick with yellow brick bands, limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks and tiled gable roof. H-shaped single-depth plan with classrooms round a central hall. Subdued Flemish Renaissance style. A symmetrical front has 3 coped gables to the ends with yellow brick bands and mullion and transom casement windows. A central parapeted entrance block has an ashlar doorcase with a segmental pediment, 2-leaf C20 door, and flanking 3-light windows. Gables each side have large tripartite windows below panels with curved brackets to an aedicule and shell hood niche. Larger central hall gable behind has a large semicircular-arched window with a label, and corner stacks. Matching rear elevation. Side elevations have projecting gables with tripartite windows under a cornice. Right-hand rear block has a large square lantern with a tented roof to an open cupola and finial. Left-hand rear wing has paired gables. INTERIOR: 4-bay hammer beam roof to the hall with turned pendents. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: perimeter walls and wrought-iron railings, with overthrow arches to gateways indicating opposite BOY and GIRL entrances. A formally-arranged school plan, possibly the first in the Bristol Board manner of classrooms round a central hall.

Listing NGR: ST5800971826

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
378932
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.

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