Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Court, Attached Area Walls and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. A C18 School. 1 related planning application.

Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Court, Attached Area Walls and Piers

WRENN ID
sombre-chapel-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North East MP: Damien Egan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
School
Address
Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Court, Attached Area Walls and Piers, Park Road, BS16 1BA
OS grid reference
ST 615 760
Coordinates
51.48203, -2.55483
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Colston's Preparatory School, located at Stapleton Court, is a house that has been converted into a school. It dates from the early 18th century and features a rendered exterior with limestone dressings, a slate roof, and brick stacks at each end. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in a mid-Georgian style. It stands three storeys tall with a five-window range, and to the right, there is a two-storey, two-window range.

The entrance boasts a large doorcase supported by fluted Corinthian columns, topped with an entablature and a broken segmental pediment, leading to a wide, panelled double door. Moulded strings run along the ground and first floors, projecting over the windows, and there is a wooden cornice gutter. The windows are 6/6-pane sashes with architraves and flush boxes.

Inside, there is a central through hall divided by a panelled segmental arch. To the right at the rear, an open-well stair features twisted balusters, three to a tread, along with a panelled dado and a ramped, wreathed rail. A stained-glass quarter-landing light adds to the interior's charm, which also includes six-panel doors and three-panel shutters.

The property is complemented by subsidiary features, including rubble area walls and capped gate piers inscribed with "STAPLETON COURT."

Local climate

Colston's Preparatory School, Stapleton Court, Attached Area Walls and Piers receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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