Modernist house, Bristol.
This house, known bluntly as "The Concrete House" is at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. It was opened as part of Bristol's annual "Doors Open" day, when interesting buildings not normally accessible to the public are made available for viewing.
A guide was on hand and told us that the building was by Charles Ward, the architect of "High and Over" at Amersham, one of Britain's most famous modernist houses. I tactfully refrained from pointing out that High and Over was the work of Amyas Connell, later of the Connell, Ward & Lucas practice, and that Ward's name was, of course, Basil. Andor Gomme, in "Bristol, an architectural history" attributes the building to Connell and Ward. It was built in 1934 for one of the grandees of the W. D. & H. O. Wills tobacco company.
Modernist house, Bristol.
This house, known bluntly as "The Concrete House" is at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. It was opened as part of Bristol's annual "Doors Open" day, when interesting buildings not normally accessible to the public are made available for viewing.
A guide was on hand and told us that the building was by Charles Ward, the architect of "High and Over" at Amersham, one of Britain's most famous modernist houses. I tactfully refrained from pointing out that High and Over was the work of Amyas Connell, later of the Connell, Ward & Lucas practice, and that Ward's name was, of course, Basil. Andor Gomme, in "Bristol, an architectural history" attributes the building to Connell and Ward. It was built in 1934 for one of the grandees of the W. D. & H. O. Wills tobacco company.