Former Gardiners Offices
FORMER GARDINERS OFFICES, OLD BREAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187344
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gardiners Offices
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER GARDINERS OFFICES, OLD BREAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187344
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Gardiners Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER GARDINERS OFFICES, OLD BREAD STREET
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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:
- FORMER GARDINERS OFFICES, OLD BREAD STREET
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 59685 72877
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 OLD BREAD STREET 901-1/42/146 (North side) 04/03/77 Former Gardiners offices (Formerly Listed as: OLD BREAD STREET Warehouse premises of Hardware (Bristol) Ltd)
GV II
Offices, now warehouse. 1865-7. By Foster and Wood. Pennant ashlar and coursed, squared rubble, with brick and limestone ashlar dressings. Bristol Byzantine style with structural polychromy. 2 storeys; 10-window range. A regular, arcuated front has angled brickwork to headmoulds, string course and frieze beneath parapet. The ground-floor has 3 wide, semicircular brick arches on ashlar piers remaining from originally 5, the second and third from the left having been replaced by a C20 RSJ lintel, with rubble spandrels. A deep limestone string to the first-floor beneath an arcade of semicircular brick arches on Pennant piers with impost bands and metal windows with glazing bars, with a rubble parapet and decorative brick coping. INTERIOR: first floor with segmental brick arches on iron joists, with a cast-iron column. The warehouses behind extend at right angles to the front, and may be later infill, with wooden truss floors on timber posts, and 2 semicircular-arched arcades dividing them back to the rear of the c1845 Broad Plain block (qv). Originally part of Christopher Thomas Brothers' Soap Works. A rare survivor of the round-arched warehouse style considered particular of C19 Bristol. (Somerville J: Christopher Thomas Soap Maker of Bristol: Bristol: 1991-; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 362).
Listing NGR: ST5968572877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380040
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 362
Somerville, J, Christopher Thomas Soap Maker of Bristol, (1991)
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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