Colston'S Preparatory School, Stapleton Park, The Old Rectory

BRISTOL

ST6176 PARK ROAD, Stapleton 901-1/29/1970 (West side) Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Park, The Old Rectory

GV II

House, now school. Mid C19. Rendered, with Bath stone ashlar dressings, brick, offset gable-end stacks and a double-pile roof with fishscale slates. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 3-window range, with a single storey; one-window range left extension. A large, central porch with battered sides, with a Tudor-arched door with wide splayed reveals, a hood and a glazed door and to the sides, deep Tudor-arched windows with narrow lights. On the right a ground-floor bay of 3 lights with casement windows with horizontal bars. The remaining windows are 3- and 4-light casements, with drip hoodmoulds. At the rear, a full-height bay on the left with decorative glazing bars, a tall central stair light, and a first-floor oriel window on moulded brackets. INTERIOR: wide hall with a stone and encaustic tile floor and panelled walls, and a rear open-well stair case with barleysugar banisters, in groups of four at the newels, a panelled soffit, a 3-bay screen at the top of the stairs, and a moulded frieze and ceiling rose above. In the extension is a reset early C18 oak dogleg stair with heavy square newel posts with pendant pyramids, and square, moulded balusters.

Listing NGR: ST6157876067