Blaise Hamlet, Circular Cottage

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))

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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-).

Listing NGR: ST5598278913