Description

BRISTOL

ST6176 BELL HILL, Stapleton
901-1/29/1934 (West side)
27/09/91 Purdown Hospital, Beech House

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Formerly known as: Stapleton Grove BELL HILL.
House, now hospital offices. c1764. For Joseph Harford. Bath
stone ashlar, copper roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys,
basement and attic; 5-window range. Mid Georgian style.
Central Doric portico with 4 columns on pedestals, entablature
and cornice, with ramped steps either side, a glazed door with
fine bars and an elaborate fanlight forms the entrance to the
piano nobile with narrow lights either side, and steps either
side down to basement door with a floating cornice on
brackets; central first-floor window with shouldered
architrave and cornice on consoles, the remaining windows
plain with aluminium frames; C20 copper mansard attic and
right-hand extension. Rear entrance with 6 steps and an iron
handrail to an Ionic porch, with BEECH HOUSE inscribed on the
entablature; semicircular doorway and 6-panel door.
INTERIOR: fine hall divided by fluted Doric columns and a
curved entablature with triglyphs, which continues round the
room. Acanthus ceiling rose, panelled shutters, reveals and
soffits, panelled doors. Elliptical arch to the fine lateral
dogleg stair, with wreathed, veneered rail and fluted
banisters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built by Joseph Harford as Stapleton Grove.
The home of Raja Rammohun Roy Bahadoor, the noted Hindu
reformer, now buried at Arno's Vale Cemetery, Bath Road,
Brislington (qv).
(Harford A: Annals of the Harford Family: London: 1909-).

Listing NGR: ST6141176147

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571341

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