Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE WHITSON STREET
901-1/11/347 (East side)
04/03/77 Church House
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITSON STREET
Church House, Vicarage of the Church
of St James)

GV II*

House. Dated 1666 on front plaque, altered C19. Rendered
Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, timber-framed
right-hand wall, rubble lateral and axial stacks and slate
cross gabled roof.
Single front and rear rooms divided by a stack with fireplaces
each side, and right-hand C19 stair. 2 storeys, attic and
basement; 2-window range.
A steep gable parapeted each side, with limestone quoins to
the right-hand side and ashlar dressings to the attic window,
and late C19 tooled ashlar surround to small right-hand
doorway. C18 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, with paired C19
plate-glass sashes to the attic, and late C17 keyed oculus in
the top of the gable. 2 small shields over the doorway
inscribed ETA and 1666.
INTERIOR: a fine late C17 ground-floor full-width front room
with full bolection-moulded panelling to a cornice, a panelled
overmantel to left-hand fire surround, a fine carved
overmantel to the rear with a Doric entablature beneath a
central cartouche with helm and rocaille, and side sections
set back with carved classical allegorical figures holding
shields. A fine plaster ceiling in 2 sections with detailed
panels, pomegranates and moulded bosses, separated by a
panelled Jacobean-style beam with strapwork, and a frieze
above the cornice with adorsal griffins; panelling flanking
fireplace and overmantel in the rear ground-floor room; the
first-floor front room has a small Tudor-arched cupboard on
the front second-floor room to the left and a cyma-moulded and
stopped beam; diagonal-braced timber-framed wall with re-used
timbers. Plasterwork of similar style and content to that in
the Llandoger Trow, King Street (qv), though better quality.
Possibly part of a house with several gables, of which that to
the Church of St James to the right (qv) may previously have
been one.

Listing NGR: ST5887973480

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553006

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings