Description

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ST6176 PARK ROAD, Stapleton
901-1/29/1966 (West side)
08/01/59 Colston's Preparatory School,
Stapleton Court, attached area walls
and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROAD
(West side)
Stapleton Court (Colston's
Preparatory School))

GV II

House, now school. Early C18. Rendered with limestone
dressings, slate roof and brick end stacks. Double-depth plan.
Mid-Georgian style.
3 storeys; 5-window range, 2 storeys; 2-window range to the
right. Large doorcase with fluted Corinthian columns,
entablature and broken segmental pediment, and a wide,
panelled double door. Moulded strings to the ground and first
floors, break forward over the windows; wooden cornice gutter.
6/6-pane sashes with architraves and flush boxes.
INTERIOR: central through hall divided by a panelled segmental
arch, with an open-well stair on the right at the rear with
twisted balusters, 3 to a tread; panelled dado, ramped and
wreathed rail; stained-glass quarter-landing light; 6-panel
doors and 3-panel shutters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: rubble area walls and capped gate piers
inscribed STAPLETON/ COURT.

Listing NGR: ST6156876043

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581292

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6