Description

BRISTOL

ST57NW LOWER HIGH STREET, Shirehampton
901-1/52/1750 (West side)
04/03/77 The Wylands, British Telecom
Training Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
LOWER HIGH STREET
(North side)
Post Office Regional School,
south-west District (The Wylands))

II

House, now training centre. 1905. By F Bligh Bond. Brick with
limestone dressings, brick ridge stacks and Cornish slate
hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2
storeys and attic; 5-window range.
A symmetrical front has quoins and a projecting centre, with a
swan's-neck segmental pediment on scrolled corbels and an
oculus under a swagged panel, and a 2-storey fully-glazed
oriel stair light; windows have rubbed brick flat-arches with
grotesque keys to 12/12-pane sashes, with ground-floor plat
band and shutters; deep, sprocketed eaves have brackets and
swagged, scrolled corner brackets, 5 dormers have alternate
triangular and segmental pediments and casement windows, and
an open square cupola.
The right-hand elevation has a projecting single-storey
parapeted porch: Ionic columns with barleysugar fluting to a
bracketed segmental canopy, coffered underneath, and a
semicircular-arched doorway with a timber fanlight and 6-panel
door; a semicircular-arched 2-light arcade to the left side.
To the right is a symmetrical elevation with a pedimented
centre stepped forward, a 12/12-pane ground-floor sash window
flanked by oculi, and a semicircular-arched central
first-floor window.
INTERIOR: central hall with arched openings and oval ceiling
panel, and a dogleg stair with square, moulded balusters and
newels.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 400).

Listing NGR: ST5293477170

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501639

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)