Description

BRISTOL

ST67SW HILLSIDE ROAD, St George
901-1/56/1839 (North side)
Air Balloon Hill Council Schools,
Infant School

GV II

Infant school. 1905. By Latrobe and Weston. Pennant rubble
with limestone ashlar dressings, and double Roman tile hipped,
gabled roofs. A central hall with range of classrooms to the
right and hall and service blocks to the left. Art Nouveau
style.
An asymmetrical group with ashlar bands to cills, lintels and
in between, and coped gables. The hall has gabled ends with a
large Venetian window with 2-centred arched middle window,
side dormers and a square ridge cupola with angle buttresses
and a copper dome. In front is a single-storey block, with a
right-hand doorway with a heavy, weathered lintel, and a
left-hand porch with segmental-arched doorway flanked by round
piers with domed tops.
To the right is a projecting gable with a tall central
segmental-arched window and lower flanking flat-headed ones,
separated by shallow buttresses, with blind oculi above; to
the right return is a range of 3 similar gables. To the left
of the hall projects a 3-storey service block with a hipped
roof, corbel table, a pair of semicircular first-floor windows
and narrow rising stair lights to the left.
The left return is a 15-window range, with a gable as the
opposite side to the rear, 2 groups of 4 windows to a tall
central hall with high, paired half dormers and a half-hipped
roof, and 4 ground-floor windows to the front end. 4/4-pane
sashes.
INTERIOR: Art Nouveau-styled hammer beam roof to the central
hall. Part of a group with the Junior School (qv) and
Instruction Centre (qv), and sharing many details with them. A
fine composition by one of the few Bristol architects to
experiment with Art Nouveau.
(Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 82).

Listing NGR: ST6322373473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497931

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)