MERCURY PRINTING OFFICES

MERCURY PRINTING OFFICES, 32, WATERLOO STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138161
Date first listed:: 04-May-1979
List Entry Name:: MERCURY PRINTING OFFICES
Statutory Address:: MERCURY PRINTING OFFICES, 32, WATERLOO STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138161
Date first listed:: 04-May-1979
List Entry Name:: MERCURY PRINTING OFFICES
Statutory Address 1:: MERCURY PRINTING OFFICES, 32, WATERLOO 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:: MERCURY PRINTING OFFICES, 32, WATERLOO STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Weston-Super-Mare
National Grid Reference:: ST 32039 61660

Details

WATERLOO STREET 1. 5121 (south side) No 32 ST 3261 NW 10/59 4.5.79 (Mercury Printing Offices) II GV 2. 1885, by Hans Price. Exuberant Dutch Baroque style with a dash of Spanish influence in the tower. Bath stone with modern weatherproofing. Two bays, the right hand one 3½ storeys, forming a break with shaped gable and multiple pilaster-work, the left hand one being glazed 2 storey quadrant with mullion and transom windows linking the Waterloo Street frontage with the street line of The Boulevard. This is emphasised by a four-staged tower with shaped gabling, corbelled pilasters and an arcaded loggia. Ornament includes balustraded parapet to quadrant, carved keystones to second floor of right hand bay, herm-pilasters, a gable tip oculus and shell hood, and a wide- arched entrance with carved material in spandrels. This building is in an important position and has a special silhouette which gives it extra value.

Listing NGR: ST3203961660

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Legacy System number:: 33262
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.