Description

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 HIGH STREET
739-1/4/45 (West side)
19/06/75 No.22
Conservative Club
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Conservative Club)

GV II

Formerly known as: Newton House HIGH STREET.
House, now Conservative club. Late C18/early C19. Colourwashed
render with stone dressings; roof not visible.
STYLE: Late Georgian.
PLAN: double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 1:3-window range. Street front with
plinth, end pilasters, first-floor sill band, cornice and
blind parapet. Ground floor has three windows, all with
original 16-pane sashes. First floor has one 16-pane sash to
left and three smaller 12-pane sashes to right. Early C19
doorway between bays one and two to left with fluted Doric
half-columns supporting plain cornice, 4-panel door and
round-arched doorway with a good fanlight with central roundel
and mouchette tracery. Flagpole extends from the doorcase
cornice through upper cornice and parapet.
INTERIOR: there is no internal evidence of the original room
layout or of any architectural details of any note.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was originally known as Newton
House; it was opened in 1905 as Keynsham and District
Constitutional Club.
The club forms a group with the adjoining Archway and The Old
Bank Public House (qqv).

Listing NGR: ST6538168757

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26664439

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)