Blaise Hamlet

Blaise Hamlet
Gloucestershire
Pillar sundial on the green and Circular Cottage behind
Location
Grid reference:	ST555785
Location:	51°30’13"N, 2°38’33"W
Data
Post town:	Bristol
Postcode:	BS10
Dialling code:	0117
Local Government
Council:	Bristol
Parliamentary constituency:	Bristol North West

Blaise Hamlet is a hamlet in Gloucestershire, increasingly hemmed in by the spreading townscape of northern Bristol but a place retaining its own integrity and character. The hamlet is composed of a complex of small cottages around a green. They were built around 1811 for retired employees of Quaker banker and philanthropist John Scandrett Harford, who owned Blaise Castle House.

The hamlet was designed by John Nash, master of the Picturesque style. He had worked for Harford on other buildings.

The cottages are now owned by the National Trust. They are still occupied and not open to the public, but the ensemble may be viewed from the outside. All the cottages, and the sundial on the green (which is accessible to the public), are Grade-I listed buildings.

Rose Cottage is now rented out by the National Trust as a holiday cottage.

Buildings

Building	House Number	Grade	Photo	Reference
Circular Cottage	8	I
Dial Cottage	7	I
Diamond Cottage	2	I
Double Cottage	4 & 5	I
Dutch Cottage	3	I
Oak Cottage	1	I
Rose Cottage	6
Sweetbriar Cottage	9	I
Vine Cottage	10	I

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Blaise Hamlet)

• Blaise Hamlet information at the National Trust]