GRESHAM CHAMBERS

GRESHAM CHAMBERS, 18, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202552
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: GRESHAM CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: GRESHAM CHAMBERS, 18, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202552
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: GRESHAM CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: GRESHAM CHAMBERS, 18, ST NICHOLAS 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:: GRESHAM CHAMBERS, 18, ST NICHOLAS 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 58853 72938

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre 901-1/16/657 (North side) 04/03/77 No.18 Gresham Chambers

GV II

Attached shop. 1868. By Ponton and Gough. Random limestone ashlar with red sandstone bands, brick party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Venetian Gothic Revival style. 3 storeys; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has a shop front with outer doorways and wider plate-glass window in between, square piers and responds with crocket capitals, raised blocks above with carved tops and gablets; lintels between have nail-head mouldings, flanking a carved, weathered cornice. Round panels in blocks have painted carved heads. Upper floors have bands of red sandstone, and impost bands with running incised decoration; flanking the second-floor bracketed cornice are short paired columns on moulded corbels with crocket capitals and gableted tops with shields and MD monogram. 3-window arcades have banded columns to crocket capitals to stilted 2-centre arches, taller on the first floor, with moulded arrises, labels, and shouldered lintels within the arches with moulded spandrels. INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20. One of a number of similar designs for commercial buildings by Ponton and Gough, including St Nicholas Chambers (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 375).

Listing NGR: ST5885372938

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Legacy System number:: 380482
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 375

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.