Buchanans Wharf
Buchanans Wharf, Ferry Street, BS1 6HN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202484
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Buchanans Wharf
- Statutory Address:
- Buchanans Wharf, Ferry Street, BS1 6HN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202484
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Buchanans Wharf
- Statutory Address 1:
- Buchanans Wharf, Ferry Street, BS1 6HN
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:
- Buchanans Wharf, Ferry Street, BS1 6HN
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 58991 72645
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 March 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
ST5872
901-1/42/231
BRISTOL
FERRY STREET
Buchanans Wharf
(Formerly listed as REDCLIFF BACKS (East side) Buchanans Wharf)
08/08/75
GV
II
Mill and granary, now flats. 1883-84. Red brick with limestone dressings; roof not visible. Open plan. Eight storeys; granary to North a four-window range, the mill a seven-window range. Articulated by pilasters forming shallow full-height recesses with dentil tops below a cornice, with linked semicircular ashlar arches to the ground floor, and wide sill bands below second and fourth floors; C20 glazed openings have segmental arches: the granary has French windows to the second and fourth recesses and inserted windows on the right in the former chimney, and a small central gable above oriel hoist bays either side of a tall central top-floor window; the mill has a tall semicircular-arched window on the ground floor to the right, and C20 windows in blind panels to the top storey.
INTERIOR: cast-iron columns; late C20 offices and flats. The complex was built by Proctor Baker, and the two blocks were linked by high level conveyors.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 90).
Listing NGR: ST5899172645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380303
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 90
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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