Former Sugar Refinery
FORMER SUGAR REFINERY, HOST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202304
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Sugar Refinery
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SUGAR REFINERY, HOST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202304
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Sugar Refinery
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SUGAR REFINERY, HOST STREET
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:
- FORMER SUGAR REFINERY, HOST 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 58625 73145
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE HOST STREET 901-1/11/123 (North West side) Former sugar refinery
II
Sugar refinery, now clothes warehouse. Mid C19, partly demolished late C20. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and a pantile hipped roof. Rectangular open plan. 4 storey; 6-window range. A regular front has plain sill courses to each floor and a parapet. Segmental-arched openings with rubble voussoirs, 2-storey entrances to the left and third from left, the former with full-height double doors, the latter with a pair of inserted C20 doors and window above, and a ground-floor double door 4th from the left; mullion windows with 6-pane casements. A small step in the parapet separates the right-hand 2 windows. Blind left return. 1-window right return has a carriage arch with double doors. INTERIOR: internal frame of cast-iron columns to RSJs supporting a timber floor, brick window dressings; queen post timber roof, with the right-hand 2-window section having a similar but heavier roof. Formerly a 10-window range, extending to the right, with a round chimney at the rear. HISTORICAL NOTE: part of the once significant Bristol sugar industry, along with the former refinery at Narrow Lewins Mead (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 360).
Listing NGR: ST5862573145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379802
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 360
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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