Description

ST52NW
1/96
25.9.86

KINGSDON CP
LODGE ROAD (East side)
Kingsdon Manor School

GII
Large detached house.Circa 1830.Rebuilt on new site for C.A Moody,possibly designed by William Wilkins.Local lias stone with Ham stone dressings;Welsh slate roofs behind parapets and pediments;stone chimney stacks.Two and three storeys;west elevation of nine bays,of which bays one,two and eight and nine,are projecting two storey wings.Band courses,cornices, plain parapets;sash windows in plain openings with voussoired flat arches;the outer pairs of bays have angled bay windows of four+twelve+four panes below, with corner pilasters,plain entablature and flat roof over,with nine-pane sashes below with corner pilasters,plain entablature and flat roof over,with nine-pane sashes to second,with a sixteen-pane sash to centre bay first floor;to centre bay ground floor a large studded eight-panel door in eared architrave,with two-panel blind section over;to this central five bay section a balustraded parapet at top and to ground floor,spanning between projections,an Ionic portico with plain entablature and flat roof.Other elevations to match.Interior not seen.Sundry extensions to north and north-east not of special interest.Since 1948 this building has housed a school for handicapped boys run by the Bristol Education Authority.(VCH,Vol III,1974).

Listing NGR: ST5159325937

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26557805

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)