Cote

BRISTOL

ST5776 COTE DRIVE, Stoke Bishop 901-1/28/1982 (North East side) 08/01/59 Cote

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House, now retirement home. c1720. Pennant rubble with limestone and rubble dressings, 2 ashlar ridge stacks and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Rusticated pilasters to the corners and to central projecting section, a deep modillion cornice and parapet; cornice on fluted consoles over late C18 semicircular doorway with panelled sides and a good fanlight with lantern, and 2-leaf 6-panel door; wide half-glazed inner doors, across the centre is a tented wrought-iron verandah with C20 glazing; polychrome segmental relieving arches over 6/6-pane sashes in flush boxes, taller on the first floor, with late C18 glazing bars, and 3 dormers; in the right return is a central ashlar doorway with fluted pilasters to a frieze and cornice. To the rear an early C19 extension with paired sashes, 4 with thick early C18 glazing bars, re-hung from the front. INTERIOR: unpainted fielded, panelled central hall with vine-leaf cornice, 2 segmental arches in front of rear framed newel stair with column and urn balusters, fluted column newels and ramped rail; the first-floor right-hand room has full-height panelling and fireplace with bolection moulding. A fine and relatively complete early Georgian house on a C17 site, in its own landscape with sunken C17 garden.

Listing NGR: ST5701276068