STORK HOUSE

STORK HOUSE, 288 AND 290, HOTWELL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282230
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: STORK HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STORK HOUSE, 288 AND 290, HOTWELL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282230
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: STORK HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STORK HOUSE, 288 AND 290, HOTWELL ROAD

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:: STORK HOUSE, 288 AND 290, HOTWELL 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 56821 72519

Details

BRISTOL

ST5672NE HOTWELL ROAD, Hotwells 901-1/13/1445 (North side) 04/03/77 Nos.288 AND 290 Stork House

II

Formerly known as: Nos.288 AND 290 Stork Hotel HOTWELL ROAD Hotwells. Pair of attached houses, later hotel, now one office. Formerly dated 1718, but on stylistic grounds the date would be mid C18. Stucco with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and hipped double-pile pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-bay range. A left-hand symmetrical front with flanking full-height bows flanking the entrance, and to the right, half of a similar house with a single bay and right-hand entrance, frieze, cornice and parapet; doorcases have 3/4 attached columns, entablature blocks and cornice, semicircular-arched doorways with fanlights and 6-panel doors. Wide 3-light bows have 6/6-pane sashes, windowless over the left-hand doorway, and a single second-floor window over the right-hand one; single right-hand dormer. Rear 9/9-pane sashes. INTERIOR: half-panelled entrance halls, the right-hand one divided by a semicircular arch, the left-hand one by a panelled elliptical arch, to rear open dogleg stairs with column-on-vase balusters, 3 per tread, moulded, ramped rail and curtail, with matching wainscot; 4-panel doors, 2-panel doors upstairs, and panelled shutters; marble fire surrounds with corner roundels. HISTORICAL NOTE: reported as having 1718 inscribed above the middle bow. Unlicenced in 1757, it was for many years a hotel, and illustrated as such in 1890s. (Winstone) (Bristol As It Was: Winstone R: Bristol in the 1890s: Bristol: 1960-: RW 167).

Listing NGR: ST5681872521

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Winstone, R, Bristol in the 1890s, (1960), 167

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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.