BLAISE HAMLET, DIAMOND COTTAGE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1282285
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address:
- BLAISE HAMLET, DIAMOND COTTAGE, 2, HALLEN ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLAISE HAMLET, DIAMOND COTTAGE, 2, HALLEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55992 78874
Details
BRISTOL
ST5578 HALLEN ROAD, Henbury
901-1/20/1341 (West side)
08/01/59 No.2 Blaise Hamlet, Diamond Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
HALLEN ROAD
Blaise Hamlet, Nos.1-10 (consec))
GV I
Cottage. 1812. By John Nash and George Repton. For JS Harford.
Random rubble with brick lateral stacks and a stone-tiled
hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Picturesque style.
Single-storey and attic; 1-window range. Set at an angle with
a pitched-roof porch to a plank door on the left of the
left-hand side. A pent roof on a deep coved eave to 2 sides,
with leaded lattice casements, one to each side and a single
half dormer above. Paired, diagonally-set stellate stacks to
the rear elevations.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having a dogleg stair
in the rear block, sitting room and back pantry.
Arranged by Harford for his retired employees. Part of an
irregular composition forming '...the nec plus ultra of
picturesque layout and design' (Pevsner). The cottages are
laid out around an open green, and were modernised c1975.
(Temple N: John Nash and the Village Picturesque: Gloucester:
1979-; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An
Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 284).
Listing NGR: ST5599278874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379686
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 284
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Temple, N , John Nash and the Village Picturesque, (1979)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing