Description

BRISTOL

ST57NW LOWER HIGH STREET, Shirehampton 901-1/52/1750 (West side) 04/03/77 The Wylands, British Telecom Training Centre (Formerly Listed as: LOWER HIGH STREET (North side) Post Office Regional School, south-west District (The Wylands))

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House, now training centre. 1905. By F Bligh Bond. Brick with limestone dressings, brick ridge stacks and Cornish slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has quoins and a projecting centre, with a swan's-neck segmental pediment on scrolled corbels and an oculus under a swagged panel, and a 2-storey fully-glazed oriel stair light; windows have rubbed brick flat-arches with grotesque keys to 12/12-pane sashes, with ground-floor plat band and shutters; deep, sprocketed eaves have brackets and swagged, scrolled corner brackets, 5 dormers have alternate triangular and segmental pediments and casement windows, and an open square cupola. The right-hand elevation has a projecting single-storey parapeted porch: Ionic columns with barleysugar fluting to a bracketed segmental canopy, coffered underneath, and a semicircular-arched doorway with a timber fanlight and 6-panel door; a semicircular-arched 2-light arcade to the left side. To the right is a symmetrical elevation with a pedimented centre stepped forward, a 12/12-pane ground-floor sash window flanked by oculi, and a semicircular-arched central first-floor window. INTERIOR: central hall with arched openings and oval ceiling panel, and a dogleg stair with square, moulded balusters and newels. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 400).

Listing NGR: ST5293477170

External Links

• Wikidata Q26501639

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas