Henbury Manor and Attached Wall and Outbuilding to East
HENBURY MANOR AND ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDING TO EAST, RECTORY GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282157
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Henbury Manor and Attached Wall and Outbuilding to East
- Statutory Address:
- HENBURY MANOR AND ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDING TO EAST, RECTORY GARDENS
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282157
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Henbury Manor and Attached Wall and Outbuilding to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENBURY MANOR AND ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDING TO EAST, RECTORY GARDENS
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:
- HENBURY MANOR AND ATTACHED WALL AND OUTBUILDING TO EAST, RECTORY GARDENS
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 56347 78879
Details
BRISTOL
ST5678NW RECTORY GARDENS, Henbury 901-1/17/1396 (North side) 08/01/59 Henbury Manor and attached wall and outbuilding to east (Formerly Listed as: RECTORY GARDENS (North side) Henbury Manor House)
GV II
House, now school. c1688. Extended and refenestrated mid C19. For John Sampson. Random rubble with limestone dressings and C19 coursed rubble extensions, diagonally-set ridge stacks and a slate roof. Double-depth plan with rear extension. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Jacobean style. Steep gables with moulded copings have ball finials and panels with oval lights, 3 gables to the front and 2 to the sides, with string courses to each floor. C19 cross windows with label moulds and metal casements below Lias relieving arches and infill. Matching mid C19 additions in squared, coursed rubble: a 2-storey front extension with a shallow full-height projection to the centre with a strapwork open parapet and rampant dragons holding flags, a Tudor-arched door with label mould to shield stops and foliate spandrels, and paired ground-floor cross window to the left; a 2-storey gabled porch to the left return with a bay with tripartite windows, and to the rear a 2-storey extension with 4 cross gables, and original lead rainwater hoppers. To the E of the extension a tall C17 wall attached to gate piers (qv) has C19 Tudor-arched doorway and vaulted stores. INTERIOR: a fine open-well stair with barleysugar balusters, moulded banister and panelled newels with openwork pendants; panelled wainscotting and dado, panelled doors and shutters, and eared architraves. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: linked block to NE has a tall rubble wall with limestone Tudor-arched doorway, and steps up to Lias Tudor-arched doorway and ribbed door. HISTORICAL NOTE: Originally called Henbury Awdelett. Shown in a Kip illustration of 1712, gabled as now with a 2-storey parapeted porch on the front, similar fenestration, a flat parapeted roof above the stair well for observation, a doorway in the right return with a segmental pediment, and stables and yard at the rear including the steps mentioned above. Extended by Edward Sampson using stone from the nearby Great House, demolished in 1821. (Hallen and Henbury Women's Institute: A Guide to Henbury: Bristol: 1970-: 21).
Listing NGR: ST5634778879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380290
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
A Guide to Henbury Bristol, (1970), 21
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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