Wca Warehouse
WCA WAREHOUSE, REDCLIFF BACKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202485
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Wca Warehouse
- Statutory Address:
- WCA WAREHOUSE, REDCLIFF BACKS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202485
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Wca Warehouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WCA WAREHOUSE, REDCLIFF BACKS
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:
- WCA WAREHOUSE, REDCLIFF BACKS
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 59011 72515
Details
ST5872
901-1/42/233
BRISTOL,
REDCLIFF BACKS (West side),
WCA Warehouse
04/03/77
GV II
Warehouse. 1909-12. By WA Brown. Concrete frame with blue and
red brick facing and render. Open plan.
4 storeys and penthouse; 15-window range. Symmetrical river
frontage divided by wide pilasters, of blue brick to the
ground and red to the upper floors with concrete quoins to the
middle, and horizontal concrete bands at floor heights.
Semicircular windows with central doorways fill the outer
sections on the ground floor; the inner ones were glazed above
roller blinds, and are now partially bricked up; the upper
floors have 3 rectangular windows to the outer sections and
3-storey cantilevered goods hoists to the 3 centre bays on
curved brackets from the third floor, with moulded panels and
mullion windows separated by sill bands; either side are
narrow windows, and below on the second floor is a 2-leaf
door.
Above a modillion cornice are the hoist rooms, and a raised
central semicircular pediment with a tall, square bay window
and WCA REDCLIFF WHARF inscribed; either side is a parapet,
ramped above the pilasters with rendered panels.
The entrance in the Redcliff Backs elevation is set in a
rendered semicircular moulded arch with swag in the spandrels
below a shield with feathers inscribed ICH DIEN, and a central
timber door frame with a glazed segmental pediment.
INTERIOR: primary and secondary beams carried on columns, and
a hollow pot floor, with a central stair well to the river
side round a lift shaft. An early use of reinforced concrete,
on the Perfector principle. The warehouse was linked to WV
Gough's adjoining grain mill, now destroyed.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
90; BIAS Journal: Cocks D: The WCA Warehouse: Bristol: 1974-:
4-8).
Listing NGR: ST5901172515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380305
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 90
Cocks, D, Bristol Industrial Archaeology Society Journal in The WCA Warehouse, (1974), 4-8
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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