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© Mr Cyril N. Chapman LRPS
IoE Number:
379685
Location:
BLAISE HAMLET, OAK COTTAGE, 1 HALLEN ROAD (west side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mr Cyril N. Chapman LRPS
Date Photographed:
11 October 1999
Date listed:
08 January 1959
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
I
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BRISTOL
ST5678NW HALLEN ROAD, Henbury
901-1/17/1340 (West side)
08/01/59 No.1 Blaise Hamlet, Oak Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
HALLEN ROAD
Blaise Hamlet, Nos.1-10 (consec))
GV I
Cottage. 1812. Extended and modernised c1975. By John Nash and
George Repton, for JS Harford. Random rubble with brick stacks
and a thatched hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Picturesque
style.
Single storey and attic; 1-window range. An irregular cottage
with a doorway in the right-hand return under a small porch.
The front has a pent roof over an open bay with a rustic tree
support, and a fitted bench; either side are narrow windows
with Maltese cross heads. Leaded casements, 3-lights beneath
the pent, and small dormers to the front and right-hand sides.
Paired diagonal brick stacks.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as containing a dogleg
winder stair from the central sitting room, a fireplace and
pantry.
Arranged by Harford for his retired employees. Part of a
composed group forming '...the nec plus ultra of picturesque
layout and design' (Pevsner). The cottages are laid out around
an open green.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and
Bristol: London: 1958-: 468; Temple N: John Nash and the
Village Picturesque: Gloucester: 1979-).