LOWER ARCADE

LOWER ARCADE, 1-36, BROADMEAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202024
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: LOWER ARCADE
Statutory Address:: LOWER ARCADE, 1-36, BROADMEAD

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Date:: 1999-09-28
Reference:: IOE01/01089/04
Rights:: © Mr Peter Frederick Rushby. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202024
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: LOWER ARCADE
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER ARCADE, 1-36, BROADMEAD

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:: LOWER ARCADE, 1-36, BROADMEAD

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 59085 73372

Details

BRISTOL

ST5973 BROADMEAD, Broadmead 901-1/40/479 (North side) 08/01/59 Nos.1-36 (Consecutive) Lower Arcade

GV II*

Arcade. 1824-5. By Foster and Oakley. Limestone and Pennant ashlar. Single-depth plan shops flanking an axial arcade. Greek Revival style. Each shop of 2 storeys; 2-window range. Broadmead front has a Pennant plinth below fluted Ionic columns in antis; pilasters flank plate-glass shop fronts either side, below panels, entablature with a dentil cornice, a frieze of palmettes and parapet with half-blind balusters. INTERIOR: columns to an entablature and cast-iron frieze divide the arcade into 9 bays, with a glazed roof divided by panelled sections with lion heads. A fine surviving example of an early shopping arcade, modelled on the Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London, and at 600 feet in length, rivalling contemporary arcades in Cheltenham, Bath and London. Originally in 2 sections, the Upper Arcade was destroyed in 1940. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 241).

Listing NGR: ST5908573372

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Legacy System number:: 379022
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 241

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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.