Blaise Hamlet, Rose Cottage

BRISTOL

ST5578 HALLEN ROAD, Henbury 901-1/20/1344 (West side) 08/01/59 No.6 Blaise Hamlet, Rose Cottage (Formerly Listed as: HALLEN ROAD Blaise Hamlet, Nos.1-10 (consec))

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Cottage. 1812. By John Nash and George Repton. For JS Harford. Random rubble with brick lateral stacks and a stone tile hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Picturesque style. Single-storey and attic; 1-window range. A right-hand open doorway to a porch beneath a swept roof, and a plank door. A pent with brackets extends from the left-hand corner over bench to a central canted bay. Leaded lattice casements, 2 lights to the bay, and 2-light half dormers above, and to the right-hand side. Left-hand triple diagonally-set stacks. INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having a winder stair, sitting room and pantry. Arranged by Harford for his retired employees. Part of an irregular composition forming '...the nec plus ultra of picturesque layout and design,' (Pevsner). The cottages are laid out around an open green, and were modernised c1975. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 468; Temple N: John Nash and the Village Picturesque: Gloucester: 1979-).

Listing NGR: ST5594478882