Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Park, the Old Rectory
COLSTON'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL, STAPLETON PARK, THE OLD RECTORY, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282203
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Park, the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- COLSTON'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL, STAPLETON PARK, THE OLD RECTORY, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282203
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Park, the Old Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLSTON'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL, STAPLETON PARK, THE OLD RECTORY, PARK 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.
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:
- COLSTON'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL, STAPLETON PARK, THE OLD RECTORY, PARK 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 61578 76067
Details
BRISTOL
ST6176 PARK ROAD, Stapleton 901-1/29/1970 (West side) Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Park, The Old Rectory
GV II
House, now school. Mid C19. Rendered, with Bath stone ashlar dressings, brick, offset gable-end stacks and a double-pile roof with fishscale slates. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 3-window range, with a single storey; one-window range left extension. A large, central porch with battered sides, with a Tudor-arched door with wide splayed reveals, a hood and a glazed door and to the sides, deep Tudor-arched windows with narrow lights. On the right a ground-floor bay of 3 lights with casement windows with horizontal bars. The remaining windows are 3- and 4-light casements, with drip hoodmoulds. At the rear, a full-height bay on the left with decorative glazing bars, a tall central stair light, and a first-floor oriel window on moulded brackets. INTERIOR: wide hall with a stone and encaustic tile floor and panelled walls, and a rear open-well stair case with barleysugar banisters, in groups of four at the newels, a panelled soffit, a 3-bay screen at the top of the stairs, and a moulded frieze and ceiling rose above. In the extension is a reset early C18 oak dogleg stair with heavy square newel posts with pendant pyramids, and square, moulded balusters.
Listing NGR: ST6157876067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380107
- 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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