Latitude: 51.4786 / 51°28'42"N
Longitude: -2.6227 / 2°37'21"W
OS Eastings: 356849
OS Northings: 175694
OS Grid: ST568756
Mapcode National: GBR C18.WT
Mapcode Global: VH88M.H3BC
Plus Code: 9C3VF9HG+CW
Entry Name: Wills Hall
Listing Date: 23 June 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202430
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380142
ID on this website: 101202430
Location: Sneyd Park, Bristol, BS9
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Stoke Bishop
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: Stoke Bishop
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Residential college Hall of residence
BRISTOL
ST5675 PARRY'S LANE, Stoke Bishop 901-1/31/1998 (South West side) 23/06/87 Wills Hall
GV II
University hall of residence. 1925-28. By Sir George Oatley. For Henry Herbert Wills. Limestone ashlar and squared Lias with slate hipped and gabled roofs. Quadrangular plan. Elizabethan Domestic Revival style, planned after an Oxford college. Single-storey; 1-window range gatehouse. 2-storey; 6-window range dining hall. 3-storey hall of residence to remaining 3 sides of the quadrangle. The gatehouse is set at a slight angle, with a wide Tudor-arched carriage archway with heavy oak double doors, below a stepped parapet; behind it is a 3-storey gabled stair tower with mullion windows. To the left is the dining hall, with 4-light mullion and transom windows separated by buttresses capped by scrolled brackets, beneath a string with Tudor flowers and a parapet. The sides to the quadrangle behind have 5 almost regular large gables, interspersed by dormers, with ranges of casement mullion windows under continuous drip courses, paired attic windows and Tudor-arched doors to the right side of each gable; large ridge stacks. INTERIOR: open flagged gatehouse hall with a large framed newel stair; dining hall has panelled walls and a Queen post roof; fully-panelled senior common room has Tudor-arched fireplace. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 417).
Listing NGR: ST5684975694
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