Purdown Hospital, Beech House
PURDOWN HOSPITAL, BEECH HOUSE, BELL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282394
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Purdown Hospital, Beech House
- Statutory Address:
- PURDOWN HOSPITAL, BEECH HOUSE, BELL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282394
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Purdown Hospital, Beech House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PURDOWN HOSPITAL, BEECH HOUSE, BELL HILL
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:
- PURDOWN HOSPITAL, BEECH HOUSE, BELL HILL
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 61411 76147
Details
BRISTOL
ST6176 BELL HILL, Stapleton 901-1/29/1934 (West side) 27/09/91 Purdown Hospital, Beech House
II
Formerly known as: Stapleton Grove BELL HILL. House, now hospital offices. c1764. For Joseph Harford. Bath stone ashlar, copper roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 5-window range. Mid Georgian style. Central Doric portico with 4 columns on pedestals, entablature and cornice, with ramped steps either side, a glazed door with fine bars and an elaborate fanlight forms the entrance to the piano nobile with narrow lights either side, and steps either side down to basement door with a floating cornice on brackets; central first-floor window with shouldered architrave and cornice on consoles, the remaining windows plain with aluminium frames; C20 copper mansard attic and right-hand extension. Rear entrance with 6 steps and an iron handrail to an Ionic porch, with BEECH HOUSE inscribed on the entablature; semicircular doorway and 6-panel door. INTERIOR: fine hall divided by fluted Doric columns and a curved entablature with triglyphs, which continues round the room. Acanthus ceiling rose, panelled shutters, reveals and soffits, panelled doors. Elliptical arch to the fine lateral dogleg stair, with wreathed, veneered rail and fluted banisters. HISTORICAL NOTE: built by Joseph Harford as Stapleton Grove. The home of Raja Rammohun Roy Bahadoor, the noted Hindu reformer, now buried at Arno's Vale Cemetery, Bath Road, Brislington (qv). (Harford A: Annals of the Harford Family: London: 1909-).
Listing NGR: ST6141176147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harford, A, Annals of the Harford Family, (1909)
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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