The Laverton Institute

WESTBURY BRATTON ROAD 1. 5411 (South Side) ST 8751 SW 4/111 The Laverton Institute

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1. Dated 1873. Architect W.J. Stent of Warminster. Italianate Gothic. 2 storey palazzo style. 7 bays and a recessed bay to right. Red brick with Bath stone dressings, moulded plinth top, string over ground floor, frieze, modillion and bracket cornice to eaves; the frieze has iron scroll work decoration, now much lacking. Tiled roof with crested ridge. Square section cast iron rain water pipes at sides with large hoppers. Plate glass sash windows, lancets on 1st floor, coupled in centre, with sandstone colonettes to caps and hood moulds. Stone brackets to balcony below centre window has ornamental guard railing with "Erected by A. Laverton Esqre J.P. - 1878" in openwork. Ground floor windows have shouldered lintels with pointed over arches, crocket capitals and sandstone nook shafts. The tympana have incised decoration, the inner window to left (capitals have curved pelicans) with monogram "A.L.", inner window to right with date 1873. Large central door piece below projecting Bath stone canopy supported on squat grey stone columns to florid leaf caps. Lean-to canopy broken in centre by gable. Tudor rose cornice. Pointed archway with alternate grey and Bath stone voussoirs, key with Pelican crest. Recessed double doors with shaped glazed panels. Memorial stone over plinth to left. Extension in similar style to right, with 2nd doorway also pointed with polychrome voussoirs. Ornamental belfry to return with wrought iron canopy and decoration. Painted glass windows on left hand return.

[General Note:] Prospect Square. Designed 1869-1870. Architect W.J. Stent of Warminster. This square is of outstanding interest. It is built on a sloping site on 3 sides above the road enclosing a square. The groups of stepped houses are in a revived vernacular style. Each group is of a different design reflected across the central axis from the road and the houses are consequently listed in paired groups. A pitched brick and tile roadway runs from No 1 to No 16 and from No 24 to No 39.

Listing NGR: ST8740451087