Description

BRISTOL

ST5674 RICHMOND DALE, Clifton
901-1/34/2115 (North West side)
Nos.15-21 (Odd)
Mission House

II

Mission house and reading room, now infant school. c1860.
Brick with blue and white brick and limestone dressings,
left-hand lateral stack and double Roman hipped and gabled
roof. Single-depth plan. Polychromatic Venetian Gothic Revival
style.
2 storeys and attic; 11-window range. A 3-window left-hand
gabled block with an attic, 1 window section set back to the
left, has black brick bands, 2-centred arched ground-floor
windows and right-hand door, with black brick and alternate
black and white brick voussoirs, and round panels between.
Shouldered first-floor windows have semicircular-arched
relieving arches with alternate coloured voussoirs; 3 similar
attic windows, a pointed relieving arch to centre, and a blind
oculus above.
Similar fenestration to the long right-hand block with some
painted black bands and voussoirs; a full-width ashlar band to
the ground-floor has THE MISSION HOUSE AND READING ROOM in
raised letters to the right. 6/6-pane horned ground-floor
sashes, plate-glass sashes above.
The rear elevation has a left-hand gable, with a hipped-roofed
porch, first-floor arcade of 5 small 2-centred arched windows,
and a large round window in the gable with brick-on-edge
surround; 5-window right-hand section has uneven fenestration,
with outer doorways.
INTERIOR: extensively remodelled.

Listing NGR: ST5725174703

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498095

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings