Description

BRISTOL

ST6176 PARK ROAD, Stapleton
901-1/29/1970 (West side)
Colston's Preparatory School,
Stapleton Park, The Old Rectory

GV II

House, now school. Mid C19. Rendered, with Bath stone ashlar
dressings, brick, offset gable-end stacks and a double-pile
roof with fishscale slates. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys;
3-window range, with a single storey; one-window range left
extension.
A large, central porch with battered sides, with a
Tudor-arched door with wide splayed reveals, a hood and a
glazed door and to the sides, deep Tudor-arched windows with
narrow lights. On the right a ground-floor bay of 3 lights
with casement windows with horizontal bars. The remaining
windows are 3- and 4-light casements, with drip hoodmoulds. At
the rear, a full-height bay on the left with decorative
glazing bars, a tall central stair light, and a first-floor
oriel window on moulded brackets.
INTERIOR: wide hall with a stone and encaustic tile floor and
panelled walls, and a rear open-well stair case with
barleysugar banisters, in groups of four at the newels, a
panelled soffit, a 3-bay screen at the top of the stairs, and
a moulded frieze and ceiling rose above. In the extension is a
reset early C18 oak dogleg stair with heavy square newel posts
with pendant pyramids, and square, moulded balusters.

Listing NGR: ST6157876067

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571189

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Nottinghamshire (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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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)