Blaise Hamlet

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Blaise Hamlet is a group of nine small cottages around a green in Henbury, now a district in the north of Bristol, England. All the cottages, and the sundial on the green, are Grade I listed buildings. Along with Blaise Castle, the hamlet is listed, Grade II*, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.[1] Nikolaus Pevsner described Blaise Hamlet as "the ne plus ultra of picturesque layout and design".[2]

Blaise Hamlet was built around 1811 for retired employees of Quaker banker and philanthropist John Scandrett Harford, who owned Blaise Castle House.[3]

The hamlet was designed by John Nash, master of the Picturesque style, who had worked for Harford on other buildings. The hamlet is the first fully realised exemplar of the garden suburb and laid a pattern for virtually all garden suburbs that followed.[4] The cottages are each unique and have brick chimneys and dormer windows, with some having thatched roofs.[5] They are examples of the Picturesque style, an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin.[6][7] An oval path links the cottages and encircles the village green, where there is a sundial.[8] The cottage gardens are planted in a Victorian cottage garden style.[9]

Since 1943, the cottages have been owned by the National Trust.[3] They are occupied and not open to the public, but the ensemble may be viewed from the green.

Buildings

Building House number Grade Photo Reference
Circular Cottage 8 I File:Circular Cottage, Blaise Hamlet.jpg [10]
Dial Cottage 7 I File:Dial Cottage at Blaise Hamlet Bristol England arp.jpg [11]
Diamond Cottage 2 I File:Diamond Cottage, Blaise Hamlet-geograph.org.uk-2272594.jpg [12]
Double Cottage 4 and 5 I File:Double Cottage, Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol (geograph 3847909).jpg [13]
Dutch Cottage 3 I File:Dutch Cottage, Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol (geograph 3847174).jpg [14]
Oak Cottage 1 I File:Oak Cottage, Blaise Hamlet.jpg [15]
Rose Cottage 6 I File:Rose Cottage, Blaise Hamlet-geograph.org.uk-2272633.jpg [16]
Sweetbriar Cottage 9 I File:Sweetbriar Cottage, Blaise Hamlet-geograph.org.uk-2272655.jpg [17]
Vine Cottage 10 I File:Vine Cottage, Blaise Hamlet (1812) (geograph 3566723).jpg [18]

See also

References

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