FORMER HARDWARE WAREHOUSE

FORMER HARDWARE WAREHOUSE, OLD BREAD STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202392
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: FORMER HARDWARE WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address:: FORMER HARDWARE WAREHOUSE, OLD BREAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202392
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER HARDWARE WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER HARDWARE WAREHOUSE, OLD BREAD STREET

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:: FORMER HARDWARE WAREHOUSE, 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 59671 72881

Details

BRISTOL

ST5972 OLD BREAD STREET 901-1/42/147 (North side) 04/03/77 Former Hardware Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: OLD BREAD STREET Warehouse premises of Hardware (Bristol) Ltd)

GV II

Soap works warehouse. 1882. By WB Gingell. Red brick with white and black brick details. Bristol Byzantine style. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Large Pennant blocks to bases of 2 wide round-arched openings with large keys and polychromatic archivolts and C20 glazing. 3 tall semicircular-arched first-floor windows divided by pilasters rising to a dentil plat band, and smaller semicircular-arched second-floor windows in a shallow recess, separated by bands of coloured and angled brickwork; dentil cornice and parapet. Red brick side elevations with blind semicircular-arched windows. INTERIOR: plain warehouse interior. Originally part of Christopher Thomas Brothers' soap works. A rare survivor of the round-arched warehouse style considered particular of C19 Bristol. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 363; Somerville J: Christopher Thomas Soap Maker of Bristol: Bristol: 1991-).

Listing NGR: ST5967172881

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Legacy System number:: 380041
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 363
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.