Briar House and Under the Hill
BRIAR HOUSE AND UNDER THE HILL, WESTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395701
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Briar House and Under the Hill
- Statutory Address:
- BRIAR HOUSE AND UNDER THE HILL, WESTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395701
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Briar House and Under the Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIAR HOUSE AND UNDER THE HILL, WESTON PARK
- Statutory Address 2:
- BRIAR HOUSE AND UNDER THE HILL, WESTON 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:
- BRIAR HOUSE AND UNDER THE HILL, WESTON PARK
- Statutory Address:
- BRIAR HOUSE AND UNDER THE HILL, WESTON 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 73477 65835
Details
WESTON ROAD 656-1/27/1870 (North side) Briar House and Under The Hill 11/08/72
GV II
Includes: Briar House and Under The Hill WESTON PARK. Symmetrical pair of houses. c1820. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, rubblestone semi-basement, double pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to gable ends. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and semi-basement; three-window front with a blind window to the first floor of the party wall: each house thus has a single window front. Continuous coped parapet, cornice, cornice band, second floor sill band, ground floor platband and plinth. Recessed panels to the openings. To the first floor is a balcony on brackets with a swept canopy on fine cast iron supports and railings, with strigillated decoration. The second floor has small three-pane casement windows flanking the party wall. To the ground floor centre are serpentine flights of steps leading to six-panel doors and fanlights in semicircular arches. Briar House to the right has plate glass sash windows and a plain fanlight. Under The Hill has an entrance in West Park, a three/three-pane sash window to the second floor and a nine/nine-pane sash to the first floor, a six/six-pane sash to the ground floor and radial glazing bars to the fanlight. INTERIORS: Not inspected. A good pair of semi-detached Late Georgian houses, possessing very fine ironwork; strigillation is a form of ornament found on Roman sarcophagi, which was also employed in a similar position on the façade of Sir John Soane's London house of 1812. 1945 photo in NMR: houses were then called 'Donnington' and 'Underhill'. Briar House, altered in 1957, was extended and part-demolished in 1975.
Listing NGR: ST7347765835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511112
- 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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