Description

In the entry for:-

ST 57 SE ABBOTS LEIGH BRIDGE ROAD

121/5/10003 BURWALLS

GV II

The address shall be amended to read:

ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON BRIDGE ROAD

121/5/10003 BURWALLS

GV II

The following building shall be added to the list:-

ST 57 SE ABBOTS LEIGH BRIDGE ROAD

121/5/10003 Burwalls

GV II

House, now college building. 1873 by J Foster and J Wood; SE extension including music room by Sir Frank Wills, 1906. Orange/red brick with limestone ashlar dressings; stone-coped plain tile roof with carves finials; brick ridge and end stacks with moulded stone cornicing to diagonally-set flues. Jacobethan style. Double-depth front block with central stairhall of 2 storeys and attic, service wings to rear of one storey and attic and SE extension (to right) of 2 storeys. Garden front of symmetrical 5-window range with 3 gables facing and central 2- storey stone porch. Panelled double doors set within rusticated semi-circular arch and fine doorcase with barley-sugar classical columns to segmental pediment broken by heraldic cartouche; 3- light stone-mullioned and transomed windows to first floor are framed by debased Ionic pilasters to carved frieze and openwork parapet with corner urns. Lead rainwater goods with chevron detailing. String courses to porch are continued across front, linking heads and cills of windows. 2-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows flank porch and similar 3-light windows to projecting outer bays. The first-floor windows are crowned by scrolled pediments with central cartouches, the windows flanking porch having scrolled aprons. 2-light stone-mullioned attic windows to gables, and hipped dormers. Other elevations are treated in similar style, although mostly with smaller windows. Left return has long bay window (probably 1906) with cartouche in scrolled pediment and flanking Ionic columns with ob_elisk finials to urns surmounting parapet. Rear elevation has cupola surmounting boldly projecting stair tower; a one-storey corridor links the service wing to a porch onto Bridge Road, this has a similar semi-circular arch as the front porch, with flanking debased Ionic columns to openwork parapet with spherical finials. South-east wing in similar style, of 4-window range and strongly articulated by Ionic columns with linking cornicing; 2-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows in eared and lugged architraves, with similar scrolled pediments to ground-floor windows and front bay.

INTERIOR: features of 1873 include panelled doors, grand stairhall with panelled doors and barley-sugar turned balusters to open-well staircase, and debased classical-style fireplaces with decorative tilework; windows with original turnbuckles and fittings. Elaborate Jacobethan-style doorcase to rear corridor articulated semi-circular arched arcades, blind to left side and fenestrated to right. Panelled dining room to left, probably of 1906, with Jacobethan-style carving to friezes and overmantle, fluted pilasters, fireplace with carved detail and coffered ceiling. Music room to right, of 1906, has recess to right (former organ chamber) and fireplace to rear set in arches with blocked architraves: fireplace has reset early C17 carved panelling to overmantle; fine strapwork plaster ceiling; very fine Arts and Crafts frieze with pastoral scenes in the style of Walter Crane. A prominent position next to Clifton Bridge.

Listing NGR: ST5630872928

External Links

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