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Latitude: 51.449 / 51°26'56"N
Longitude: -2.5882 / 2°35'17"W
OS Eastings: 359218
OS Northings: 172393
OS Grid: ST592723
Mapcode National: GBR C9M.LD
Mapcode Global: VH88N.3V11
Plus Code: 9C3VCCX6+JP
Entry Name: Chatterton's House and School and Attached Screen Wall
Listing Date: 8 January 1959
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202490
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380313
Also known as: Chatterton House
ID on this website: 101202490
Location: Box Makers Yard, Bristol, BS1
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: St Mary Redcliffe with Temple, Bristol and St John the Baptist, Bedminster
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Architectural structure Historic house museum
BRISTOL
ST5972 REDCLIFFE WAY
901-1/42/235 (North side)
08/01/59 Chatterton's House and School and
attached screen wall
(Formerly Listed as:
REDCLIFFE WAY
(North side)
Chatterton's House and School)
GV II
House and screen wall. Dated 1749. Limestone ashlar, render,
brick eaves stacks and hipped pantile roof. Double-depth plan.
2 storeys; 3-window range. Central doorway has a flat canopy
on thick, scrolled brackets over a C20 porch, with 6/6-pane
sash windows in flush boxes and a parapet. A plaque above the
door reads THIS HOUSE WAS CREATED BY GILES MALPAS... AD 1749,
and a second reads THE BIRTHPLACE OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Along
the right-hand end is an ashlar screen wall, one storey;
2-window range: symmetrical with a pediment on rusticated
pilasters with 2 keyed, segmental-headed windows with
architraves; flanking sections are set back with keyed
doorways, Pennant cills, a C20 door to the left and inserted
sash window to the right. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL
NOTE: Thomas Chatterton the boy poet was born and schooled
here, under his father the school master.
Listing NGR: ST5921872393
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