Description

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 BRISTOL ROAD
739-1/4/19 (North side)
19/06/75 No.20
St Dunstan's Presbytery

II

Detached house. Late C17 with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and
additions. Coursed rubble with gabled pantile roofs and 3
brick stacks: 2 end and one central.
PLAN: original C17 house set at right-angles to road, a
single-depth, 3-room plan, with later extension parallel to
rear.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3-window range. Symmetrical east facade
with central doorway and outer bays rising to gabled
half-dormers. 12-pane sashes to ground floor in plain reveals
with wooden lintels; dormer to left-hand has C20 cross-mullion
casement, that to right-hand has C19 casement with fixed top
light, both with sills and under wooden lintels. C20 casement
window above doorway. Gabled pantile porch on wooden posts;
multi-paned C20 door. South return facade has two steep
gables, early C19 twelve-pane sash to ground-floor right, and
the remainder are C20 casements. A central wing extends back
from the ridge of the C17 front range with 2 ridge stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: one of the few surviving C17 houses in
Keynsham.
FURTHER INFORMATION: the building was originally rendered with
roughcast and pebble-dash.

Listing NGR: ST6522568914

Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)