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© Mr Cyril N. Chapman LRPS
IoE Number:
379691
Location:
BLAISE HAMLET, CIRCULAR COTTAGE, 8 HALLEN ROAD (west side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mr Cyril N. Chapman LRPS
Date Photographed:
15 September 1999
Date listed:
08 January 1959
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
I
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BRISTOL
ST5578 HALLEN ROAD, Henbury
901-1/20/1346 (West side)
08/01/59 No.8 Blaise Hamlet, Circular Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
HALLEN ROAD
Blaise Hamlet, Nos.1-10 (consec))
GV I
Cottage. 1812. By John Nash and George Repton. For JS Harford.
Random rubble, brick gable stacks and a thatch hipped roof.
Single-depth plan. Picturesque style.
Single-storey and attic; 1-window range. A bow-ended cottage
with a pent on brackets extending round 3 sides, over a
left-hand gabled open porch to a plank door, and a front
bench. Paired lattice casements, to the sides and front, and
half-dormers to the left and front. Paired diagonally-set rear
stacks. C20 tiled rear extension.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having a winder stair
flight, sitting room and pantry.
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-).