Print Page
© Ms Ruth Povey
IoE Number:
379688
Location:
BLAISE HAMLET, 1-10 HALLEN ROAD
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Ms Ruth Povey
Date Photographed:
08 March 2007
Date listed:
08 January 1959
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
I
The Images of England website consists of images of listed buildings based on the statutory list as it was in 2001 and does not incorporate subsequent amendments to the list. For the statutory list and information on the current listed status of individual buildings please go to The National Heritage List for England.
BRISTOL
ST5578 HALLEN ROAD, Henbury
901-1/20/1343 (West side)
08/01/59 Nos.4 AND 5 Blaise Hamlet, Double
Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
HALLEN ROAD
Blaise Hamlet, Nos.1-10 (consec))
GV I
Pair of attached cottages. 1812. By John Nash and George
Repton. For JS Harford. Random rubble with brick lateral and
ridge stacks and a stone tile cross-gabled roof. Single-depth
plan. Picturesque style. Single-storey and attic; 3-window
range. An irregular pair has a right-hand cross-gable linked
by a pent roof on brackets to a left-hand open porch with a
coped gable and pointed-arched doorway to a plank door; a
right-hand wooden porch with a hipped roof. Leaded lattice
casements, to a 3-light bay on the gable, 2 paired windows
below the pent, and a 2-light canted bay in the left return; a
central dormer and 2-light window set in a dovecote in the
gable. 2 sets of triple stellate stacks. INTERIOR not
inspected, but reported as having winder stairs and sitting
rooms with rear services.
Arranged by Harford for his retired employees. Part of an
irregular composition forming '...the nec plus ultra of
picturesque layout and design,' (Pevsner). The cottages are
laid out around an open green, and were modernised c1975.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and
Bristol: London: 1958-: 468; Temple N: John Nash and the
Village Picturesque: Gloucester: 1979-).