21, HORFIELD ROAD
21, HORFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293090
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 21, HORFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 21, HORFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293090
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 21, HORFIELD ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21, HORFIELD ROAD
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:
- 21, HORFIELD 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 58522 73416
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE HORFIELD ROAD 901-1/11/119 (West side) 04/03/77 No.21
GV II
House. Dated 1869. By Foster and Wood. Uncoursed limestone ashlar, rubble rear, external end stacks and a pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian Revival style. 2 storeys; 4-window range. A symmetrical front has rusticated quoins, a ground-floor cornice and moulded timber eaves; the doorway has a moulding at sill height, plate-glass overlight and half-glazed double doors. Windows have architraves, ground-floor pulvinated friezes and pediments strung along the cornice, segmental to the ends, semicircular over the door, and triangular between; casement cross windows with horizontal glazing bars. Over the doorway is a moulded panel with a small pediment, dated 1869 beneath 2 fish and an anchor. Stacks on each end have quoins and a pair of diagonally-set square stacks with cornices. INTERIOR: entrance hall to a central stair flight with turned balusters. Built as the warden's house to Colston's Almshouses (qv), though in the manner of Bengough's Almshouses (qv), and with the pediments and stacks in imitation of their style. An early example of Georgian Revival, cleary designed to compliment earlier buildings. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 31).
Listing NGR: ST5852273416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379795
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 31
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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