Grove House
GROVE HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282316
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Grove House
- Statutory Address:
- GROVE HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282316
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Grove House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROVE HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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:
- GROVE HOUSE, CORNWALLIS GROVE
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 57092 72870
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW CORNWALLIS GROVE, Clifton 901-1/14/843 (South side) 04/03/77 Grove House (Formerly Listed as: CORNWALLIS GROVE La Retraite (Grove House))
GV II
House, now office. c1790, altered mid C19 and C20. Limestone ashlar and render with a copper-clad roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 2 storeys, double attic and basement; 9-window range. Severely extended: symmetrical garden front has a 1:2:1 ashlar block and flanking C19 extensions, with pedimented 2-window centre broken forward with rusticated quoins. Rusticated basement, first-floor sill band and cornice, and two C20 attic storeys. Segmental-arched basement windows, enlarged ground-floor windows with 2/2-pane horned sashes, 6/6-pane sashes above. Rear elevation has 3 windows with a pedimented centre, and a projecting porch with a rusticated ashlar front, semicircular-arched doorway, fanlight and 6-panel door. INTERIOR: entrance stair hall with a right-hand open-well stair with column-on-vase balusters, 3 per tread, a ramped, moulded rail to a wide curtail and column newel, and brackets with triglyphs; niche beside the doorway with moulded archivolt and key; C19 decoration to the front rooms with elliptical arches and heavy cornice. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 19).
Listing NGR: ST5709272870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 19
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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