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Bristol city centre: House: 1717–22: 8 January 1959: 1207768: Upload Photo [158] Numbers 27, 28 and 29 Orchard Street and attached front area railings and gates: Bristol city centre: House: c. 1720: 8 January 1959: 1202407: Upload Photo [159] Numbers 25 and 26 Orchard street and attached front area railings and lamp: Bristol city centre: House
The house stands within a large estate spanning the boundary between Bristol and North Somerset, approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the city centre. It is on the western side of the River Avon close to the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the suburb of Leigh Woods and the Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve which are east of Ashton Court. To ...
The Dower House, Stoke Park is a dower house in Bristol, England. It is one of Bristol's more prominent landmarks, set on Purdown, a hill above the M32 motorway on the main approach into the city, and painted yellow. [1] The house was built in 1553 by Sir Richard Berkeley.
Since 2013, Bristol has seen an increase in buildings being built or office blocks being converted for student accommodation. These include Froomsgate House, Greyfriars, St. Lawrence House (a former office block) in Broad Street, the former Magistrates Court site and New Bridewell Tower. [106]
The estate was sold to Bristol City Council in 1926, to preserve it from development. [20] During World War II the house was occupied by the armed forces. [9] A branch of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery since 1949, Blaise Castle House now features collections relating to household items in addition to its period interior decoration. [20]
No 1 House is currently (2010) being redeveloped as flats. In 1958, the buildings became Bristol College of Science and Technology (more recently changed to City of Bristol College, Brunel Campus). The site has been used as the film set for the BBC television series Casualty. Muller Road, which runs near the site of the orphanage, is named ...
William Miles (1728–1803), Sheriff of Bristol in 1766, Mayor of Bristol in 1780 and Warden of the Merchant Venturers, lived at number 61 (now renumbered as 69/70/71) and the house became the offices of his family's extensive business interests. [11] [12] [13] The first overseas US Consulate was established at what is now No.37 Queen Square in ...
A nineteenth-century view of 1–5, King Street by Samuel Loxton. King Street is a 17th-century street in the historic city centre of Bristol, England.. The street lies just south of the old town wall and was laid out in 1650 to develop the Town Marsh, the area then lying between the south or Marsh Wall and the Avon.