37 AND 39, JAMAICA STREET
37 AND 39, JAMAICA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202319
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 39, JAMAICA STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 37 AND 39, JAMAICA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202319
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 37 AND 39, JAMAICA STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 37 AND 39, JAMAICA 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:
- 37 AND 39, JAMAICA 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 59074 73915
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973NW JAMAICA STREET, Stokes Croft 901-1/6/2027 (North side) 07/11/89 Nos.37 AND 39
II
Carriage works, now offices. 1905, upper floors 1909. Cast- and wrought-iron frame, brick and render. Rectangular plan. Cast-iron columns with flared capitals to the lower 2 floors, with glazed infill; upper floors have columns encased with brick, separated by timber cornices, and half-glazed above rendered panels; doors with margin and overlights in the left and 2 right panels. INTERIOR: ground- and first-floor cast-iron columns to paired timber beams with wrought-iron flitches braced by wrought-iron ties, plain dogleg stairs at either end. '...historically a building of much interest, maintaining the intermittent thread from the structural experiments of the 1840s to the hegemony of the steel or concrete frame a century later' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-).
Listing NGR: ST5907473915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379840
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979)
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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