Ashton Gate Junior School and Attached Perimeter Walls, Gates and Railings
ASHTON GATE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, ASHTON GATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282421
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Gate Junior School and Attached Perimeter Walls, Gates and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ASHTON GATE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, ASHTON GATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282421
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ashton Gate Junior School and Attached Perimeter Walls, Gates and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHTON GATE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, ASHTON GATE ROAD
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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:
- ASHTON GATE JUNIOR SCHOOL AND ATTACHED PERIMETER WALLS, GATES AND RAILINGS, ASHTON GATE 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 57389 71752
Details
BRISTOL
ST5771 ASHTON GATE ROAD, Bedminster 901-1/44/361 (South West side) 04/03/77 Ashton Gate Junior School and attached perimeter walls, gates and railings (Formerly Listed as: ASHTON GATE ROAD 2 school buildings at Ashton Gate Primary School)
GV II
Board school, now junior school. 1876, 1881. By F Bligh Bond and CF Hansom. Squared Pennant rubble, freestone dressings, double Roman and fishscale tiles, decorative ridge tiles. Main block with projecting wings at both ends and 1881 block added at right angles on North Road end. Free Gothic style. 2 storeys; 5 bays. Uneven quoins, plinth and weathered plat band. Principal SE elevation to Greenway Bush Lane with playground in front has a right-hand wing with large lancet and tracery; to the left 2 buttresses frame tall mullioned windows and a wide panel with the inscription BRISTOL SCHOOL BOARD/ ASHTON GATE SCHOOL 1876, with a tile hung dormer above; left-hand entrance wing has pointed doorway with moulded archivolt and octagonal turret to left with fishscale tiles. The NE Ashton Gate Road elevation faces directly onto the road; left hand door into yard has Caernarvon arch and basketwork brick infill to lancet above. Plainer right hand door. 1-, 2- and 3-light windows with 2-centred heads, gable to main hall has stepped window with trefoil heads and barge-boards; wide tile-hung dormer incorporating with 3 smaller ones to right. Chapel in E corner, of single storey; 3-window range with a 12-foil rose window in the gable. The quatrefoil-headed windows rise through the eaves into dormers. Laundry block in SE corner and open arcaded coal store. 1881 block to North Street forms a large hall with 2 projecting classroom blocks to the SW. Single storey, with varied fenestration of mullioned and transomed windows with 4-centred heads; the hall is top lit by a rectangular lantern with a steep turret roof. The roofs have a horizontal pattern of glazed tiles. Garage range to S side: 6-bay range, open to the front with braced posts and decorative ridge tiles. INTERIOR: plain wainscotting and fireplaces with Gothic moulded surrounds; that in end of 1881 hall has stout moulded columns supporting a wide Tudor chimneypiece. The main hall and chapel roofs have extended braced collar trusses on carved corbels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble walls, gates and railings to S, E and W sides. The largest structure of a very fine group of Board School buildings. (Lavar's View of Bristol: Bristol: 1887-).
Listing NGR: ST5738971752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lavar, , Lavars View of Bristol, (1887)
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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