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The following building shall be added to the list:-
ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON ABBOTSLEIGH ROAD
LEIGHWOODS
5/10001 White House and
Grange Fell
- II
Pair of dwellings. 1901 by Henry Dare Bryan. Roughcast over
brick; gabled and hipped tile roofs with original rainwater
goods; roughcast stacks. Longitudinal plan with dwelling at each
end. Arts and Crafts style. 2 storeys and attics; 5-window range.
Wood-mullioned windows of up to 4 lights with original shutters
and iron catches etc to rectangular leaded casements. Swept roof
with moulded guttering over two square bay windows to left. Broad
overhanging eaves, surmounted by flat-roofed dormer to left with
plain pilasters and moulded cornice, is continued to run beneath
tall M-shaped gabled dormers to right which are built over 2-
storey canted bays with central doorway. Other elevations in
similar style, especially notable being the treatment of the
gable ends, with eaves of roof wrapped around each gable, that
to right under gablet flanked by stacks and that to left over
canted oriel window and doorway with decorative bracketed hood
in early C18 style. Interior: complete with panelled doors in
moulded architraves, moulded cornices and fireplaces in classical
and Art Nouveau style. The White House to left has pierced Art
Nouveau splat balusters to staircase. Strapwork ceiling to rear
left. Service doors with flat cornicing, the pantry having
original shelves. Grange Fell noted as having complete interior
and grained vaulting to entrance hall. A good example of an Arts
and Crafts house, clearly influenced by the work of C F A Voysey.
Listing NGR: ST5562972870
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ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON ASHTON ROAD (north side)
5/93 Church Lodge and Archway
- II
Lodge for the Ashton Court Estate. Dated JHGS 1886. Coursed squared rubble
with freestone quoins and dressings; roof concealed behind embattled parapet.
Single storey. 5 bays. The centre is a tall, moulded, 4-centred archway with
a ribbed vault; above the arch is a band of blind arcading; two octagonal
turrets with embattled tops; between the turrets the parapet steps up and bears
the Smyth Arms. Flanking the archway are single bays with 1:3:1 light oriel
windows with ogee headed lights and transoms; moulded base and embattled parapet.
The outer bays have 3-light cross windows with ogee heads: the left bay is
advanced and the right is recessed.
Listing NGR: ST5542371194
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ST 56 NW LONG ASHTON ASHTON WATERING
7/94 Gatcombe Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Mid - late C17, altered C19. Coursed rubble; double Roman tiled
roof with coped raised verges and parapet; brick stacks. Gabled vernacular
farmhouse. 2 storeys and attics in 2 steep, coped gables. 5 bays: 2-light
casement windows under exposed lintels. Central gabled projecting porch;
panelled and studded door in ogee and step moulded surround with elaborate stops.
2 storey, single bay extension to left. Interior: stop-chamfered beams;
panelled door to left room in ovolo moulded surround.
Listing NGR: ST5265169819
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ST 56 NW LONG ASHTON ASHTON WATERING
7/95 Gatcombe Court
G.V. II*
Court or manor house. Late C14 - C15; altered mid - late C17 and C20.
Rubble with freestone dressings; double Roman tiled roofs at different levels;
rendered diagonal stacks. 2 storeys; and attics in 2 steep gables with ball
finials to the left (west) part. 4 bays to south elevation with the gable end
of the east wing at the far right. The ground floor has two canted bay windows
with glazing bar sashes (1930's) to the left; an off-centre projecting, square
ashlar porch with a moulded cornice and a C19 panelled and glazed door; to the
right is a C17 1:3:1-light bay window with ovolo moulded mullions, transoms and
surrounds. On the first floor to the left are 2-light cross windows under a
continuous string course and to the right are 2 glazing bar sash windows;
2-light cross windows in the attic. West elevation. 2 bays to the left with
4- and 3-light casement windows in ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds and
decorative iron catches; lozenge and square panelled door to right in a moulded
frame. At the far right is the projecting gable end of a mediaeval wing:
remains of a 2-light window with cusped ogee heads and under a square dripmould
in the re-entrant wall; 3-light window with hollow chamfered mullions and cusped
ogee heads, under a square dripmould, in gable end wall. Interior. Rear
(north-east) room has remains of an ashlar fireplace with an ogee-hollow moulded
lintel and jamb; pointed valuted plaster ceiling to chamber above. The main
part of the house has an open well staircase, dated RS 1683, with a closed and
moulded string, turned balusters and acorn finials; nearby is a studded and
panelled door, dated A/1S 1664
Listing NGR: ST5254769859
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ST 56 NW LONG ASHTON ASHTON WATERING
7/96 Pair of Gatepiers, Gates,
Flanking Walls and Central
Flight
G.V. of Steps 60 yards to south of
Gatcombe Court
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Gatepiers, gates, flanking walls and central flight of steps. Early - mid C18.
Square, panelled ashlar gatepiers with moulded cornice; scrolled volutes to the
sides rest on flanking rubble quadrant walls which extend for approximately 4-5
yards. Flight of 6 steps to centre; raised verges with ball finials.
Decorative wrought iron gates.
Listing NGR: ST5254569810
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ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON BRIDGE ROAD, LEIGH WOODS
5/97 CliftonSuspension Bridge, two
Tollhouses and Flanking Walls on
- West Side
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CliftonSuspension Bridge, two tollhouses and flanking walls. Designed in
competition, 1829-31 by I.K. Brunel. Building commenced 1836, pylons completed
1840 when funds used up. Ironwork sold 1851. Work resumed 1861 under Hawkshaw
and Barlow and completed with the chains from Brunel's HungerfordBridge
(demolished 1861): opened 1864. The abutments are of red sandstone, very large
on the Leigh Woods side. The pylons are of Pennant rubble with projecting
ashlar caps, traffic opening with porthole above. Span of 600 feet suspended
from triple wrought-iron chains. The deck is 245 feet above high water level.
On the Leigh Woods side the roadway is flanked by coped, coursed rubble walls
approximately 4 feet high: approximately 50 yards long to the north and 100
yards long to the south. By the roadside are two toll houses: coursed squared
rubble with freestone quoins and dressings; flat roof with overhanging moulded
cornice; single storey; battered walls; doors to west sides in moulded
architraves; C20 windows to north of north tollhouse and south of south
tollhouse. Also listed as item 7/586 and 39/586 of the List of Buildings of
Special Architectural and Historic Interest for the City of Bristol.
Listing NGR: ST5647873076
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In the entry for:-
ST 57 SE ABBOTS LEIGH BRIDGE ROAD
121/5/10003 BURWALLS
GV II
The address shall be amended to read:
ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON BRIDGE ROAD
121/5/10003 BURWALLS
GV II
The following building shall be added to the list:-
ST 57 SE ABBOTS LEIGH BRIDGE ROAD
121/5/10003 Burwalls
GV II
House, now college building. 1873 by J Foster and J Wood; SE
extension including music room by Sir Frank Wills, 1906.
Orange/red brick with limestone ashlar dressings; stone-coped
plain tile roof with carves finials; brick ridge and end stacks
with moulded stone cornicing to diagonally-set flues. Jacobethan
style. Double-depth front block with central stairhall of 2
storeys and attic, service wings to rear of one storey and attic
and SE extension (to right) of 2 storeys. Garden front of
symmetrical 5-window range with 3 gables facing and central 2-
storey stone porch. Panelled double doors set within rusticated
semi-circular arch and fine doorcase with barley-sugar classical
columns to segmental pediment broken by heraldic cartouche; 3-
light stone-mullioned and transomed windows to first floor are
framed by debased Ionic pilasters to carved frieze and openwork
parapet with corner urns. Lead rainwater goods with chevron
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detailing. String courses to porch are continued across front,
linking heads and cills of windows. 2-light stone-mullioned and
transomed windows flank porch and similar 3-light windows to
projecting outer bays. The first-floor windows are crowned by
scrolled pediments with central cartouches, the windows flanking
porch having scrolled aprons. 2-light stone-mullioned attic
windows to gables, and hipped dormers. Other elevations are
treated in similar style, although mostly with smaller windows.
Left return has long bay window (probably 1906) with cartouche
in scrolled pediment and flanking Ionic columns with ob_elisk
finials to urns surmounting parapet. Rear elevation has cupola
surmounting boldly projecting stair tower; a one-storey corridor
links the service wing to a porch onto Bridge Road, this has a
similar semi-circular arch as the front porch, with flanking
debased Ionic columns to openwork parapet with spherical finials.
South-east wing in similar style, of 4-window range and strongly
articulated by Ionic columns with linking cornicing; 2-light
stone-mullioned and transomed windows in eared and lugged
architraves, with similar scrolled pediments to ground-floor
windows and front bay.
INTERIOR: features of 1873 include panelled doors, grand
stairhall with panelled doors and barley-sugar turned balusters
to open-well staircase, and debased classical-style fireplaces
with decorative tilework; windows with original turnbuckles and
fittings. Elaborate Jacobethan-style doorcase to rear corridor
articulated semi-circular arched arcades, blind to left side and
fenestrated to right. Panelled dining room to left, probably of
1906, with Jacobethan-style carving to friezes and overmantle,
fluted pilasters, fireplace with carved detail and coffered
ceiling. Music room to right, of 1906, has recess to right
(former organ chamber) and fireplace to rear set in arches with
blocked architraves: fireplace has reset early C17 carved
panelling to overmantle; fine strapwork plaster ceiling; very
fine Arts and Crafts frieze with pastoral scenes in the style of
Walter Crane. A prominent position next to CliftonBridge.
Listing NGR: ST5630872928
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ST 56 NE LONG ASHTON BRIDGEWATER ROAD (north-west side)
8/98 Castle Farmhouse
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Farmhouse. Early C19. Rendered; double Roman tiled roof with coped raised
verges; brick stacks. 2 storeys. 4-bays: glazing bar sash windows under
cambered heads. Off-centre to the left is a projecting, polygonal 2 storey
tower with an embattled parapet; 3-light Gothic-style window on first floor.
Single storey C20 lean-to conservatory and door at left of tower.
Listing NGR: ST5574568968
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ST 56 NE LONG ASHTON BRIDGEWATER ROAD (north-west side)
8/99 Colliter's Brook Farmhouse
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Farmhouse. Early C19. Rubble; pantile roof with coped raised verges; brick
stacks. 3 storeys. Two 3-light casement windows on ground floor; four
2-light casements on first floor, all under cambered brick arches; three 2-light
casements in the attic. Central gabled porch with segmental headed outer
doorway.
Listing NGR: ST5532268528