King Edwards Pre-prep School
King Edwards Pre-prep School, Weston Lane, Lower Weston, BA1 4AQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395662
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- King Edwards Pre-prep School
- Statutory Address:
- King Edwards Pre-prep School, Weston Lane, Lower Weston, BA1 4AQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395662
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- King Edwards Pre-prep School
- Statutory Address 1:
- King Edwards Pre-prep School, Weston Lane, Lower Weston, BA1 4AQ
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:
- King Edwards Pre-prep School, Weston Lane, Lower Weston, BA1 4AQ
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 73389 65787
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 April 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
656-1/27/1858
WESTON LANE (South side)
King Edwards Pre-prep School
(Formerly listed as The Park Preparatory School, previously listed as WESTON ROAD (South side) Park Preparatory School)
05/08/75
GV
II
Former detached house, now part of a school. c1840. Limestone ashlar, complex slate roof with tall octagonal shafts to moulded stacks. Double-depth plan. Tudor Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: Two and three storeys and attic; three bay front. A moulded coped parapet and string course rise over two forward-facing shouldered gables to the right and to the returns. Casement windows in flat-arched recesses with sunk spandrels to four-centred arched heads. The two-storey gable to the right has a single-shafted chimney as a finial; a label mould over a three-light, three-pane window to the first floor; a canted bay to the ground floor has a moulded coped parapet, string course, and a tall two-light window to the front. The smaller central set-forward gable is a two-storey porch with an octagonal finial similar but smaller than the stack to the right, with a fine wrought iron upper finial; a hip-roofed oriel window with shields in quatrefoiled aprons, one two-pane window to each facet; a label mould with ornamented spandrels over a Tudor-arched porch and half-glazed door and side-lights with Gothic glazing. The three-storey set back left hand range has a stack to the gable; a single-light attic window; the string course rises as a hoodmould over a two-light second floor window above a two-storey shallow rectangular castellated bay with a three-light window to both floors. The left return has two gables with triple-shafted stacks and hoodmoulds to the windows of a projecting right hand gable. The right return has external stacks, that to the left has two shafts, that to the right on a projecting gable has three shafts.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: Originally called The Retreat, this Tudorbethan house is a good example of the Romantic tendencies affecting house design at the close of the Georgian period, and shows the adaptation for residential use of a style more usually associated with school and college buildings. It is in the manner of James Wilson's designs. Formerly a nursing home, it was adapted for school use in 1959. An assembly hall was added in 1982.
Listing NGR: ST7338965787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511074
- 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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