West Gate
WEST GATE, COLSTON AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052272
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- West Gate
- Statutory Address:
- WEST GATE, COLSTON AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052272
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- West Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST GATE, COLSTON AVENUE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WEST GATE, COLSTON AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58698 73140
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE COLSTON AVENUE, Centre 901-1/11/557 (North East side) 18/05/81 West Gate (Formerly Listed as: COLSTON AVENUE Electricity House)
GV II
Office. 1938. By Giles Gilbert Scott. Portland ashlar, flat roof not visible. Modernist style. Deep plan offices. 5 storeys and attic; 7-window front, 15-window left-hand and 12-window right-hand returns. A curved symmetrical front, set back above the ground floor from long side elevations, with moulded sill band, full-length ground-floor entablature and blocking course, coved first-floor sill band, and a plain fourth-floor band to the front section; the sides have a cornice and parapet beneath fourth floor set back, and attic windows set back again beneath a deeply overhanging roof, with thick mullions to the front. A central front doorway has an architrave with roundels to double doors and a cartouche above, with full-width curved plate-glass shop windows each side, and late C20 casements above. The returns have ground floors divided by thick mullion pilasters between plate-glass windows, doorways to penultimate bays each end; first-floor balconies at either end extend out of the entablature, railings to the fourth floor and attic. The left return has a right-hand doorway. The rear is a matching 7-window range with end balconies, and splayed 1-window corners with a carriage entrance to the NW corner, blind on the E corner. INTERIOR: refurbished 1991. Forms a strong termination to the E end of Colston Avenue. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 423).
Listing NGR: ST5869873140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 423
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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