MERCHANT TAYLORS' ALMSHOUSES

MERCHANT TAYLORS' ALMSHOUSES, 19 AND 21, MERCHANT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1025053
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: MERCHANT TAYLORS' ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: MERCHANT TAYLORS' ALMSHOUSES, 19 AND 21, MERCHANT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1025053
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: MERCHANT TAYLORS' ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: MERCHANT TAYLORS' ALMSHOUSES, 19 AND 21, MERCHANT STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MERCHANT TAYLORS' ALMSHOUSES, 19 AND 21, MERCHANT STREET

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District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 59173 73276

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BRISTOL

ST5973 MERCHANT STREET, Broadmead 901-1/40/485 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.19 AND 21 Merchant Taylors' Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: MERCHANT STREET, Broadmead (West side) Nos.19 AND 21 Lloyds Bank)

GV II*

Almshouse, now bank. Dated 1701. Render over brick, rendered lateral stacks and a slate hipped roof. U-shaped plan with wings flanking front courtyard. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Symmetrical with deep projecting wings to a courtyard. Chamfered quoins, first-floor string and modillion cornice to boxed eaves; the central doorway has a good bracketed shell hood, a plain surround and 2-leaf 2-panel doors; matching doorways face across the courtyard with carved brackets to a pedimented hood. C20 cross windows flanking the main door, 3 to each side of the courtyard and 2 in the ends. Above the door is a large, painted panel bearing the arms of the Merchant Taylor's Guild, and flanking it the inscription ANNODM/1701. INTERIOR not inspected. One of Bristol's earliest brick buildings, it was built by the Guild for the accommodation of 9 persons, each side of the building having 3 dwellings.

Listing NGR: ST5917373276

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Legacy System number:: 379992
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.