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Latitude: 51.4545 / 51°27'16"N
Longitude: -2.6304 / 2°37'49"W
OS Eastings: 356295
OS Northings: 173020
OS Grid: ST562730
Mapcode National: GBR C0K.5G
Mapcode Global: VH88M.CP8W
Plus Code: 9C3VF939+QV
Entry Name: Alpenfels
Listing Date: 14 October 1991
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1129060
English Heritage Legacy ID: 33607
ID on this website: 101129060
Location: Leigh Woods, North Somerset, BS8
County: North Somerset
Civil Parish: Long Ashton
Built-Up Area: Leigh Woods
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Church of England Parish: Abbots Leigh with Leigh Woods
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
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ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON NORTH ROAD
LEIGHWOODS
5/10000 Alpenfels
GV II
House, c1872 and for Francis F Fox, Chief Engineer of the Bristol
and Exeter Railway from 1872. Snecked and hammer-dressed Pennant
stone with Bath stone quoins; gabled low-pitched roof with
alternating bands of plain and fish scale tiles. Rectangular
plan. Swiss Cottage style. 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range
to gabled front. Gabled porch with chamfered pointed-arched
doorway with finial and outer pendentives to decorative fretted
bargeboards. Stone lintels over windows with flanking shutters
and richly decorated and bracketed openwork balconies to first
and second floors. Exterior staircase and dormer with decorative
tile cheeks and bargeboards. Large carved brackets to wide
overhanging eaves with similar decorative bargeboards to all
elevations. Similar rear elevation with latticed casements to
oriel window and 2-storey square bay windows. Interior: upper
floor has panelled doors and latticed woodwork; ground floor
noted as having panelling, Gothic-style fireplaces and Minton
tile floors. A fine and dramatically-situated example of a house
in this style.
Listing NGR: ST5629573020
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