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St Albans

A Grade II Listed Building in Clifton, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4532 / 51°27'11"N

Longitude: -2.6174 / 2°37'2"W

OS Eastings: 357197

OS Northings: 172874

OS Grid: ST571728

Mapcode National: GBR C3K.2X

Mapcode Global: VH88M.LQ5T

Plus Code: 9C3VF93M+72

Entry Name: St Albans

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1208251

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379761

ID on this website: 101208251

Location: Clifton Wood, Bristol, BS8

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Clifton Christ Church with Emmanuel

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



BRISTOL

ST5772NW HENSMAN'S HILL, Clifton
901-1/14/874 (South side)
08/01/59 St Albans

GV II

Also known as: Emmaus House HENSMAN'S HILL Clifton.
Attached house, now convent. Mid-late C18, extended and
refronted late C19. Render with limestone dressings, lateral
stacks and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys,
attic and basement; 6-window range. Symmetrical entrance front
has a projecting centre, ground-floor cornice, first-floor
cornice extending all round, and a deep cornice, and later
left-hand 2-storey 3-window block extending forward. An open
ashlar porch has pilasters to a pediment and a semicircular
arch with a blocked archivolt, and a C20 six-panel door. Above
is a canted bay with a timber segmental pediment. Small
semicircular-arched window each side of the porch, the rest
6/6-pane sashes, central 3/6-pane attic sash, and 6-pane
lights each side. The rear elevation has a central late
Georgian style section with semicircular-arched stair windows,
and a left-hand doorway with a tented wrought-iron porch with
lattice sides. INTERIOR: rear dogleg stair with uncut string,
stick balusters and column newels; lateral entrance hall to a
left-hand late C19 dogleg stair with moulded balusters and
large newels.


Listing NGR: ST5719772874

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