Air Balloon Hill Council Schools Instruction Centre

BRISTOL

ST67SW HILLSIDE ROAD, St George 901-1/56/1840 (North side) Air Balloon Hill Council Schools, Instruction Centre

GV II

Instruction centre. 1905. By Latrobe and Weston. Pennant rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, lateral stacks and double Roman tile hipped, gabled roofs. Single-depth plan, right-hand hall and left-hand caretaker's house. Single storey; 6-window range hall. A gabled right-hand end with large lunette over 3 windows, the front has 4/4-pane sashes and a corbel table to the eaves. 2-storey house has a central lateral stack, pyramidal roof, the left-hand corner is angled and set forward with 2 windows and a small gable inscribed 1905 with Art Nouveau flowers. A central doorway has wide, flat buttresses to a parapet, with a segmental arch set back beneath a corbelled band and a panel inscribed MANUAL INSTRUCTION CENTRE. The left return has Art Nouveau flowers, a lateral stack and central segmental pediment. Part of a group with the Junior School (qv) and Infant School (qv), and sharing many details with them. A fine composition by one of the few Bristol architects to experiment with Art Nouveau.

Listing NGR: ST6319073437