CLIFTON COLLEGE, BIG SCHOOL

CLIFTON COLLEGE, BIG SCHOOL, COLLEGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282342
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, BIG SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, BIG SCHOOL, COLLEGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282342
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, BIG SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, BIG SCHOOL, COLLEGE 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:: CLIFTON COLLEGE, BIG SCHOOL, COLLEGE 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 56980 73852

Details

BRISTOL

ST5673NE COLLEGE ROAD, Clifton 901-1/1/825 (North East side) 01/11/66 Clifton College, Big School (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE ROAD, Clifton Clifton College Big School, School House and Wilson Tower)

GV II

Hall. 1862. By Charles Hansom. Snecked Brandon Hill Grit with limestone dressings, gable and lateral stacks and a slate roof. Single-depth plan forming the SW side to a quadrangle. Collegiate Tudor Gothic Revival style. 3 storeys; 10-window range. 2-centred arched windows, on the ground floor with a shallow arch, tall on the upper floors with 2 transoms; separated by buttresses, to a stepped crenellated parapet, with 2 large lateral stacks set in crow-stepped gables. The steep roof has a row of 10 louvred, gabled dormers below the ridge. Square stair tower at the left end; gable stack to left-hand gable. Right-hand gable has 2 ground-floor windows separated by a buttress, a large 7-light upper window with Perpendicular tracery, and finial. Diagonally-set stacks with linked cornices. Attached parallel 2-storey block to the NE side facing the quadrangle has steep gables, and 3 bays, the central one blind, under a gable with a large lateral stack. INTERIOR: stone dogleg stairs, inserted floor at gallery height of former hall, which has an arch-braced roof with quatrefoils through the braces, and crenellated corbels. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 320; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 419).

Listing NGR: ST5698073852

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 379319
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 320
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 419

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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.