Henbury Manor And Attached Wall And Outbuilding To East

BRISTOL

ST5678NW RECTORY GARDENS, Henbury 901-1/17/1396 (North side) 08/01/59 Henbury Manor and attached wall and outbuilding to east (Formerly Listed as: RECTORY GARDENS (North side) Henbury Manor House)

GV II

House, now school. c1688. Extended and refenestrated mid C19. For John Sampson. Random rubble with limestone dressings and C19 coursed rubble extensions, diagonally-set ridge stacks and a slate roof. Double-depth plan with rear extension. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Jacobean style. Steep gables with moulded copings have ball finials and panels with oval lights, 3 gables to the front and 2 to the sides, with string courses to each floor. C19 cross windows with label moulds and metal casements below Lias relieving arches and infill. Matching mid C19 additions in squared, coursed rubble: a 2-storey front extension with a shallow full-height projection to the centre with a strapwork open parapet and rampant dragons holding flags, a Tudor-arched door with label mould to shield stops and foliate spandrels, and paired ground-floor cross window to the left; a 2-storey gabled porch to the left return with a bay with tripartite windows, and to the rear a 2-storey extension with 4 cross gables, and original lead rainwater hoppers. To the E of the extension a tall C17 wall attached to gate piers (qv) has C19 Tudor-arched doorway and vaulted stores. INTERIOR: a fine open-well stair with barleysugar balusters, moulded banister and panelled newels with openwork pendants; panelled wainscotting and dado, panelled doors and shutters, and eared architraves. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: linked block to NE has a tall rubble wall with limestone Tudor-arched doorway, and steps up to Lias Tudor-arched doorway and ribbed door. HISTORICAL NOTE: Originally called Henbury Awdelett. Shown in a Kip illustration of 1712, gabled as now with a 2-storey parapeted porch on the front, similar fenestration, a flat parapeted roof above the stair well for observation, a doorway in the right return with a segmental pediment, and stables and yard at the rear including the steps mentioned above. Extended by Edward Sampson using stone from the nearby Great House, demolished in 1821. (Hallen and Henbury Women's Institute: A Guide to Henbury: Bristol: 1970-: 21).

Listing NGR: ST5634778879