37-39, Corn Street
37-39, Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187274
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 37-39, Corn Street
- Statutory Address:
- 37-39, Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187274
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 37-39, Corn Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37-39, Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HT
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:
- 37-39, Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HT
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 58762 72991
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 March 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
ST5872NE
901-1/16/564
BRISTOL
Centre
CORN STREET (North West side)
No 37-39
(Formerly listed as No.37)
18/05/81
GV
II
Bank and office. 1938. By Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Portland ashlar, lateral stacks and pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Stripped Classical style. Five storeys and attic; four-window range. A symmetrical front has a ground floor in three sections with pilasters to an entablature, set forward to the centre; third-floor sill band, with wide fluted piers above between the windows, entablature and a shallow full-width pediment and parapet. The fifth floor is set back with a coped parapet. Outer ground-floor openings have split keys to lintels, rectangular overlights above with lattice grilles, French windows each side, and a wider central window, all with aluminium glazing bars with segmental-arched tops; Art Nouveau-style grille over the middle window. Female Epstein-style relief carvings flank a wide central first-floor window, brackets to a balcony above with intersecting curved railings and French windows; windows with aluminium glazing bars, and three copper-clad dormers.
INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20.
Listing NGR: ST5876272991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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