Grove Hall

BRISTOL

ST316170 GROVE PARK, Brislington 901-1/48/461 (East side) 04/03/77 Grove Hall

II

House. c1830. Render, limestone dressings, brick gable end stacks and slate valley roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Symmetrical front set back to the left with the doorway in the left-hand end of the projecting front section. Pilasters with incised Greek Revival-style details rise through cornice to a parapet with acroteria, forming a square shaft out of the chimney in the left-hand internal angle; first-floor sill bands and parapet. Low ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes on the top floor, first-floor central and left-hand end windows have architraves and console pediments. Crenellated porch with cast-iron columns and a C20 door, and a semicircular-arched stair window above. The rear elevation, originally the principal front, has a symmetrical 5-window range. Rusticated pilaster strips, a sill band and cornice beneath the parapet, which returns along the gables. Low 6/6-pane horned sashes to the ground and first floors, 3/3-panes on the second; central porch has columns with palmette capitals, an entablature with triglyphs and an open pediment, C20 glazed door and fanlight. INTERIOR: front hall with open-well cantilevered stone stair, wide curtail and cast-iron balusters; semicircular-arched recess in hall has fluted Ionic columns either side of large mirror and moulded ceiling; similar ceiling to first-floor landing; panelled shutters, and stone fireplace surrounds with corner roundels. (Rowe J and Williams D: Bygone Brislington: Bristol: 1986-: 37).

Listing NGR: ST6171270766