Description

BRISTOL

ST5776 COTE DRIVE, Stoke Bishop
901-1/28/1982 (North East side)
08/01/59 Cote

II*

House, now retirement home. c1720. Pennant rubble with
limestone and rubble dressings, 2 ashlar ridge stacks and a
slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style.
2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Rusticated pilasters to
the corners and to central projecting section, a deep
modillion cornice and parapet; cornice on fluted consoles over
late C18 semicircular doorway with panelled sides and a good
fanlight with lantern, and 2-leaf 6-panel door; wide
half-glazed inner doors, across the centre is a tented
wrought-iron verandah with C20 glazing; polychrome segmental
relieving arches over 6/6-pane sashes in flush boxes, taller
on the first floor, with late C18 glazing bars, and 3 dormers;
in the right return is a central ashlar doorway with fluted
pilasters to a frieze and cornice. To the rear an early C19
extension with paired sashes, 4 with thick early C18 glazing
bars, re-hung from the front.
INTERIOR: unpainted fielded, panelled central hall with
vine-leaf cornice, 2 segmental arches in front of rear framed
newel stair with column and urn balusters, fluted column
newels and ramped rail; the first-floor right-hand room has
full-height panelling and fireplace with bolection moulding.
A fine and relatively complete early Georgian house on a C17
site, in its own landscape with sunken C17 garden.

Listing NGR: ST5701276068

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553031

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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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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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)