Description

BRISTOL

ST5776 WESTBURY ROAD, Stoke Bishop
901-1/28/2018 (West side)
Badminton School and attached wall
and doorway

II

House, now school. Mid C18, extended to NE mid C19. Render
with limestone dressings, limestone ashlar, squared, coursed
Carboniferous rubble, and a slate hipped roof.
Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style with Jacobethan-style
extension. Entrance front is a 2-storey; 2-window range,
attached to 2-storey; 2-window range C19 block.
The earlier house has a rendered, parapet wall, openings with
keyed architraves, right-hand door and central canted bay with
fluted angle pilasters; 6/6-pane first-floor sash, the rest
C20 casements. C19 house to the left has a rubble plinth,
quoins, cornice to ground and first floors, parapet and tall
round finial columns to each corner.
Right-hand porch has paired, attached 3/4 columns, round
fluted ones to the inside, entablature and large gadrooned
corner urns and a panelled parapet; keyed Tudor-arched doorway
has 2-leaf 10-panel doors with anthemia to the top, and a
gadrooned over-panel. Mullion and transom windows with ovolo
mouldings and metal casements.
The left side breaks forward, with tripartite windows, outer
ones blind on the first floor, and a Dutch gable with round
panels to a keyed oculus and blind balustrade.
The left return has a similar left-hand projecting section,
with a full-height central semicircular 4-light bow with outer
windows, and right-hand paired 6-light windows, blocked to the
ground floor; plain parapet with central and flanking round
panels.
A central square 3-stage tower set at an angle has open
semicircular arches flanked by 3/4 Doric columns to an
entablature, and semicircular-arched French doors and a
fanlight; narrow first-floor windows with raised surrounds,
third floor with oculi, and a square ogee copper dome with a
weather vane.
The rear elevation has a similar left-hand wing, and
right-hand 12-light windows with flanking narrow windows as on
the tower, and a gable above. INTERIOR: details of the C18
house include an axial passage with a semicircular panelled
arch, and dogleg winder service stairs with a banded rail and
curtail.
The C19 house includes a large entrance hall with semicircular
arches to each side with grotesque keys, and a ceiling divided
by moulded beams, to a central stair hall with an Imperial
stair with turned balusters and square newels, and ceiling
rose. A good stone Jacobean style fireplace in the NE room has
triple Ionic columns to the surround and overmantel, with
entablature and cresting, a central heraldic panel of the City
and flanking statues in niches, all decorated with strapwork;
cornice and frieze, doors with round-topped panels; marble
fireplaces in the other downstairs rooms and former bedrooms.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble wall extends approx 10m
from SE corner, with a Jacobethan-style decorative doorway
with raised quoins and pediment. A decorative and
well-detailed house.

Listing NGR: ST5714876445

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514320

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