Brislington Transport Depot Entrance and Attached Gates, Wall and Shed
BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED GATES, WALL AND SHED, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201987
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Brislington Transport Depot Entrance and Attached Gates, Wall and Shed
- Statutory Address:
- BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED GATES, WALL AND SHED, BATH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201987
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Brislington Transport Depot Entrance and Attached Gates, Wall and Shed
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED GATES, WALL AND SHED, BATH ROAD
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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:
- BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT ENTRANCE AND ATTACHED GATES, WALL AND SHED, BATH ROAD
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 61187 71555
Details
BRISTOL
ST67SW BATH ROAD, Brislington 901-1/56/441 (North East side) 04/03/77 Brislington Transport Depot Entrance and attached gates, wall and shed (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD (North side) Brislington Transport Depot, entrance block only)
GV II
Formerly known as: National Carriers Depot BATH ROAD. Tram depot entrance block. Dated 1899. By W Curtis Green. For the Bristol Tram Company. Bath stone and Pennant rubble, slate roof. Arched entrance block with wings on either side set back at an angle. Georgian style. 2 storeys; 4-bay range. A symmetrical front with a tall, semicircular keyed archway beneath an open modillion pediment on banded pilasters either side; with banded reveals, pilasters divide the elevation to the side into bays under a modillion cornice and parapet; large semicircular-arched ground-floor windows with alternate chamfered voussoirs and jambs, set in rubble bays above a banded plinth, below paired, rectangular first-floor windows with glazing bars, set in ashlar under a string; the pediment bears a cartouche in the tympanum with the monogram of the Bristol Tram Company; on top is a tall square clock tower on a plinth with attached, fluted corner columns, cornice and small dome on 8 columns with an iron spike. INTERIOR: offices with few decorative details. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: detached single-storey line of garages inside Sandy Park Road boundary wall to the east of the Entrance Block, and rubble perimeter wall with moulded plinth extends W along Sandy Park Road to the bottom end of the bridge ramp. The entrance is modelled on an C18 stable block. The Bristol Tram Company started business in 1876, and had 7 depots in Bristol of which this is the only one close to its original form, with considerable architectural attention paid to the sheds as well as the show-piece entrance block. Green designed the Tramway Generating Station on Counterslip (qv). (RCHME: Bristol An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation: London: 1991-: 5).
Listing NGR: ST6118771555
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas Bristol, (1991), 5
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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