Napier Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. House.
Napier Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dim-bracket-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRISTOL
ST5477 KINGS WESTON LANE, Shirehampton 901-1/24/1739 (East side) 08/01/59 Nos.1, 2 AND 3 Napier Cottages
GV II
Terrace of 3 houses. Early C18, perhaps by Vanbrugh and contemporaneous with Kings Weston (qv). Limestone rubble and dressings, brick exterior stacks and pantile roof. Single-depth L-shaped plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Entrances in the returns, with a heavy left return chimney breasts, stone lintels to Nos 1 & 2 to the right, and brick to No.3 to the left. 3 right-hand ground-floor windows have large Mannerist stepped voussoirs and a key which rises to the sill above with sashes, and a central, segmental-headed window flanked by flat-headed ones, with casements. Later left-hand extension has 6/6-pane ground-floor sash and a 4-light canted oriel with a curved base in the end gable. INTERIOR not inspected. Notable for '...enormous voussoirs of obviously Vanbrugian derivation,' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 112).
Listing NGR: ST5437477416
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