Governor's House
GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, CALEDONIAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395132
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Governor's House
- Statutory Address:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, CALEDONIAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395132
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Governor's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, CALEDONIAN 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:
- GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, CALEDONIAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73679 64628
Details
CALEDONIAN ROAD
(South side)
Governor's House
(Formerly Listed as:
STUART PLACE
Premises occupied by
Walters Engineering Ltd)
05/08/75 II
Governor's House to Twerton Gaol now flats. c1842. By GP Manners.
MATERIALS: Fine limestone ashlar, slate roofs.
STYLE: Classical
PLAN: Compact single block, with wide five-bay symmetrical entrance (north) front and three bay returns; main front with the central three bays brought forward.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys plus basement, with original glazing bar sashes, six/twelve-pane in raised plat surrounds with eared lintels and projecting keystone. End bays are blank except at ground floor. Second floor sills have brackets, ground and first floor jamb platbands carried straight down. Basement has sixteen-pane sash each side of centre in plain ashlar walling, with two twelve-pane to right. Central recessed tripartite entrance feature has panelled door with transom light and side lights, with four heavy block consoles, and on four stone steps carried over basement area. Ground floor has deep V-joint channelling, with square channelling to first and second floors, and paired giant square Roman Doric pilasters. Between central pairs small single light has been inserted at each level. Base mould to pilasters, threaded sill bands, and cornice on heavy block modillions, with plain blocking course. To left of centre deep ashlar stack. Left and right returns are similarly detailed, with four pilasters, but inserted door to the basement at east end. The rear (south) front simpler, in plain ashlar, in three:one:three bays with glazing bar sashes in raised plat surrounds but no keystones, six/twelve-pane, with simple ground floor string course, and pilaster returns only at each end. Ground floor has three and two windows each side of central pair of panelled doors.
INTERIOR: Not inspected. It formerly housed the chapel, chaplain's room, reception and magistrates rooms, the laundry, kitchen etc. which served the cell block to the rear.
HISTORY: This is all that remains of Twerton Gaol, the first municipal gaol to be built following the 1835 Prisons Act. Situated some distance from the city to take advantage of a well-ventilated site, its lay-out responded to central government directives. It originally contained one hundred and twenty two individual cells. The stern exterior, in a heavy Palladian idiom, was intended as a stern piece of `architecture parlante'. The prison closed in 1878.
SOURCES: Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 537.
Listing NGR: ST7367964628
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510549
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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