Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment 05/03/2013

ST5778
901-1/22/2044

BRISTOL
CHARLTON ROAD (North West side)
Westbury On Trym
Repton Hall

(Formerly listed as Brentry House)

II
04/03/77

House, now apartments. 1802. By Humphry and James Repton. Limestone and Pennant ashlar, slate hipped roof. Late Georgian style. 2 storeys; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has 3 semicircular-arched ground-floor recesses with radiating fluted stone fanlights above entablature transoms, a cornice and parapet: the central recess has volute brackets to an open doorway into a porch with side niches and half-glazed 2-leaf doors, with a fanlight above; the recesses either side have tripartite windows with reeded mullions and transom, and 3/9-pane windows; the ends of the elevation project slightly with rusticated ground floors and incised voussoirs, with an open doorway to the right end and a window to the left; C20 first-floor windows. The left-hand return has a raised parapeted Ionic colonnade on 3 Pennant steps, between projecting 2-storey pavilions with rusticated ground floors and open doorways with flat heads; fenestration as the front. On the right-hand side is a curved orangery with square Tuscan columns and a pedimented end gable.
INTERIOR: central entrance hall, a right-hand lateral stair with cast-iron balusters and a curtail, veneered 6-panel doors and shutters.

(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979: 265).

Listing NGR: ST5758278678

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497726

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)