Description

BRISTOL

ST6176 WICKHAM HILL, Stapleton
901-1/29/1975 (East side)
08/01/59 Nos.1 AND 2
Wickham Court and attached walls
(Formerly Listed as:
WICKHAM HILL
Wickham Court, No.1-4 (Consec))

GV II*

House. Early C17. Pennant rubble with double Roman tiled roof.
Double-depth plan with left-hand cross-wing. Double-depth
plan.
2 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. Central gable
with flanking 2-storey blocks, with 2 doors to right of the
gable, the right-hand one with a large stone lintel and
6-panel door, glazed at the top and fielded in the middle; C20
glazed door to the left, and stone boot scrapers. Leaded metal
casements with interlacing at the top and some green glass,
set in 2- and 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom
windows to the gable, first floor and attic; plain cross
windows with glazing bars on the ground floor and to the
right.
INTERIOR: central rear dogleg winder stair with splat
balusters and vase newels with pendants, leading to an
observation platform in the top of the rear stair tower;
scrolled window catches and angled stanchion bars; deeply
chamfered beams with chamfer stops, and studded doors with 9
panels.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble garden wall extends
approx 100m to SW.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Cromwell and Fairfax are believed to have
held council here before the march on Bristol in August 1645.
An important house with a good and fairly complete interior.
The garden wall follows the line of the former Gloucester Road
up from Wickham Bridge (qv).

Listing NGR: ST6195676177

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553011

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