Blaise Castle
BLAISE CASTLE, HENBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208115
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Blaise Castle
- Statutory Address:
- BLAISE CASTLE, HENBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208115
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Blaise Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLAISE CASTLE, HENBURY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLAISE CASTLE, HENBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 55857 78376
Details
BRISTOL
ST5578 HENBURY ROAD, Henbury 901-1/20/1361 (South West side) 08/01/59 Blaise Castle
GV II*
Sham castle. 1766. Renovated 1957. By Robert Mylne. For Thomas Farr. Lias ashlar with limestone dressings. Circular in plan with 3 turrets. Gothick style. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Symmetrical front elevation with a central 2-centred arched doorway below a large cross window with Y-tracery and cinquefoil heads, 3 windows to each turret have shallow arched cinquefoil heads in rectangular frames; slightly overhanging crenellated parapet, blind cross arrow slits to the ground and top floors and pierced quatrefoils to the turrets and a shield above the door. INTERIOR: largely removed in the 1957 repair, after the Castle had become badly neglected; winder stair in the right-hand turret. HISTORICAL NOTE: the 3-tower form was made popular by Fort Belvedere, Shrub House, Windsor (Pevsner). Unusually for such buildings, Blaise Castle was habitable. Repton in his Red Book for Joseph Harford of 1798 recommended raising one turret to render the symmetrical outline more picturesque. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 174; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 468).
Listing NGR: ST5585778376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379730
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 468
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 174
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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