St Ambrose Almshouses
ST AMBROSE ALMSHOUSES, PARK CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282198
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- St Ambrose Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- ST AMBROSE ALMSHOUSES, PARK CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282198
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- St Ambrose Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST AMBROSE ALMSHOUSES, PARK CRESCENT
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:
- ST AMBROSE ALMSHOUSES, PARK CRESCENT
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 61837 73904
Details
BRISTOL
ST67SW PARK CRESCENT, St George 901-1/56/1844 (North side) 04/03/77 St Ambrose Almshouses
GV II
Almshouse of 8 attached cottages. c1914. Probably by WV Gough. Snecked, red Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, timber studding with pebble dashing on the first floor, brick gable and ridge stacks and tiled roof with gablets. L-shaped single-depth plan. Arts and Crafts style. One storey with a 2-storey corner block; 4 bays in the long elevation, 2 in the short left-hand one. Cottages of a door and single bay, large lintel with segmental arches over doors with integral overlights, beneath a short cornice on floral brackets; small, leaded window to the side, and shallow, canted bays with 9/1 sash windows. The L-shaped corner block has an ashlar porch across the angle, with an open 4-centred archway below a flat lintel and open spandrels. The front of the porch is incised to form a first-floor bay window, above which is a stepped pediment with a ball finial; there is a cartouche above the arch and a shield in the pediment. To the right, 3-light mullion windows on the ground and first floors. INTERIOR: few decorative details include dogleg staircases with moulded square newels and banisters. Part of a group with the church and church hall of St Ambrose, Stretford Road (qv).
Listing NGR: ST6183773904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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