The Old Vicarage And Attached Area Railings

BRISTOL

ST67SW TRINITY ROAD, Laurence Hill 901-1/56/1565 (East side) The Old Vicarage and attached area railings

GV II

Vicarage, now house. 1889. By John Bevan. Red brick with yellow and black brick decoration, limestone dressings, brick end stacks and tile roof. Double-depth plan. Venetian Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys and attic; 2-bay range. An asymmetrical front has a central 3-centre arched door with overlight of 4 mullioned trefoiled windows, set in a rectangular architrave and label mould. Ovolo mullion and transom windows; full height canted bay immediately to the left of the door with 3 central lights, and a 3-light dormer above with barge-boards on corbelled brackets. Right-hand bay has 4-light ground-floor window with ashlar weathering above, and 3-light first-floor windows; blind dormer above. Patterned brick work in the tympana of the dormers, yellow and black brick stripes and patterns on the front. INTERIOR: a central hall and open-well stair to the rear with coarsely fretted banisters and turned newel, with a large lancet stair window in the rear elevation. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached short dwarf wall curves out from the doorway to a round pier, and an attached coped front area wall. A good example for Bristol of a Gothic design using polychromatic brickwork, with the similar St Philip's Public Library (qv).

Listing NGR: ST6005073454