Allen House Mullers Homes City of Bristol College
ALLEN HOUSE MULLERS HOMES CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE, ASHLEY DOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375993
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Allen House Mullers Homes City of Bristol College
- Statutory Address:
- ALLEN HOUSE MULLERS HOMES CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE, ASHLEY DOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375993
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Allen House Mullers Homes City of Bristol College
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALLEN HOUSE MULLERS HOMES CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE, ASHLEY DOWN ROAD
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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:
- ALLEN HOUSE MULLERS HOMES CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE, ASHLEY DOWN 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 59701 75696
Details
ST5975 BRISTOL ASlll..EY DOWN ROAD ASlll..EY DOWN 901/32/10038 Allen House: Muller's Homes (City of Bristol College) GV n Orphanage. 1847-9, by John Foster and Son of Bristol, for George Muller. Pennant stone rubble with Bath stone window frames. Gable-ended roofs, re-clad. PLAN: R~dial plan with central square tower with canted corners, and four wings, at the ends of which are lower workshop wings fornring three courtyards, the SW courtyard is open on two sides. EXTERIOR: 4-storey central tower with canted corners, and 3-storey 9-bay wings north and south, and 2/3 storey east and west wings, and single storey workshop ranges. 12-pane sashes [some altered] in plain stone architraves. Main entrance in first bay on south side of west wing, with stone portico with pairs of square piers. C20 extensions built in the courtyards. INTERIOR: Hall on ground floor of central tower with cast-iron ventilation shaft at centre and coved ceiling with moulded plaster neo- Classical decoration. NOTE: Allen House was the first of five large barrack-type orphanage buildings to be built from 1847 to 1870 by the Prussian-born pastor and philanthropist George Muller. The orphanage was built entirely from voluntary contributions. Allen House was illustrated in the London Illustrated News in 1850. SOURCE: Pevsner, N; Buildings of England: Bristol, p.457.
Listing NGR: ST5970175696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 457
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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