Description

BRISTOL

ST67SW HILLSIDE ROAD, St George
901-1/56/1840 (North side)
Air Balloon Hill Council Schools,
Instruction Centre

GV II

Instruction centre. 1905. By Latrobe and Weston. Pennant
rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, lateral stacks and
double Roman tile hipped, gabled roofs. Single-depth plan,
right-hand hall and left-hand caretaker's house. Single
storey; 6-window range hall.
A gabled right-hand end with large lunette over 3 windows, the
front has 4/4-pane sashes and a corbel table to the eaves.
2-storey house has a central lateral stack, pyramidal roof,
the left-hand corner is angled and set forward with 2 windows
and a small gable inscribed 1905 with Art Nouveau flowers. A
central doorway has wide, flat buttresses to a parapet, with a
segmental arch set back beneath a corbelled band and a panel
inscribed MANUAL INSTRUCTION CENTRE. The left return has Art
Nouveau flowers, a lateral stack and central segmental
pediment.
Part of a group with the Junior School (qv) and Infant School
(qv), and sharing many details with them. A fine composition
by one of the few Bristol architects to experiment with Art
Nouveau.

Listing NGR: ST6319073437

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503533

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)