REDLAND COURT (REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL)

REDLAND COURT (REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL), REDLAND COURT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291739
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: REDLAND COURT (REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL)
Statutory Address:: REDLAND COURT (REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL), REDLAND COURT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1291739
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: REDLAND COURT (REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL)
Statutory Address 1:: REDLAND COURT (REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL), REDLAND COURT 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:: REDLAND COURT (REDLAND HIGH SCHOOL), REDLAND COURT 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:: ST5828574844

Details

BRISTOL

ST315874 REDLAND COURT ROAD, Redland 901-1/35/1719 (West side) 08/01/59 Redland Court (Redland High School) (Formerly Listed as: REDLAND COURT ROAD, Redland (West side) Redland Court)

II*

House, now school. 1732-5. By John Strachan. For John Cossins. Limestone ashlar, render with limestone dressings, ashlar stacks, Pennant steps, roof not visible. Axial, double-depth plan. Palladian style. 2 storeys and basement; 13-window range. Symmetrical composition of a central 7-window block, with flanking pavilions behind. The main block has steps up over the basement to a slightly projecting centre, which has a rusticated ground floor with three C19 French windows beneath tented glazed verandah, beneath a tetrastyle-in-antis Ionic portico to a modillion pediment with 4 putti around a cartouche, and 3 windows with architraves beneath swag. Either side has clasping pilasters, sill bands, cornices and balustrade with 7 good urns; Gibbs surrounds to basement and ground-floor windows, the latter with eared architraves with prominent voussoirs over cornices, and first-floor windows with architraves and cornices, all with plate-glass sashes. The pavilions have rusticated pilasters to a cornice and parapet, with plain urns; the ground floor has a Venetian window with a shell-head niche flanked by narrow windows with Gibbs surrounds and voussoirs, above a blind balustrade, and plain first-floor sashes. C19 upper floor to the right pavilion and an octagonal cupola to the left one. The connecting ranges have 2 semicircular-arched ground-floor windows and small plain windows under a cornice. INTERIOR: 3 good front rooms fully panelled, modillion cornices, and fluted Ionic pilasters to segmental arches and 4-fold doors connecting the central and E room, and good marble fireplaces. A central stone-flagged hall to the rear with decorative ceiling, Doric frieze and doorcase with a broken pediment and a mahogany 6-panel door; either side are 2 good open-well stairs, that to left following the semicircular wall to a quarter landing, with a semi-domed ceiling, barleysugar column-on-vase balusters and fluted Doric column newels, ramped rails and pedimented doorcases, Doric frieze with bucrania; the right-hand open-well stair has quarter landings and plainer column-on-vase balusters, and doorcases with segmental pediments. HISTORICAL NOTE: an Elizabethan house was demolished on the site in 1730, and some of the panelling re-used. The house was built for John Cossins; the design uses details derived from Colen Campbell, at Houghton. (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 164; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 133; Dening C F W: The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol: Bristol: 1923-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 471).

Listing NGR: ST5828574844

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 380318
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Dening, C F W , The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bristol, (1923)
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 133
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 164
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 471

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.