ALBION CHAMBERS ALBION CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE

ALBION CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 22 AND 23, SMALL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202579
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: ALBION CHAMBERS ALBION CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE
Statutory Address:: ALBION CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 22 AND 23, SMALL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202579
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: ALBION CHAMBERS ALBION CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE
Statutory Address 1:: ALBION CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 22 AND 23, SMALL STREET
Statutory Address 2:: ALBION CHAMBERS, BROAD 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:: ALBION CHAMBERS AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 22 AND 23, SMALL STREET
Statutory Address:: ALBION CHAMBERS, BROAD 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 58828 73073

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE SMALL STREET, Centre 901-1/11/630 (North East side) 08/01/59 Nos.22 AND 23 Albion Chambers and attached railings and gate (Formerly Listed as: SMALL STREET (North East side) Nos.22 AND 23 and Albion Chambers)

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Includes: Albion Chambers BROAD STREET Centre. Offices, now restaurants and offices. 1843. Brick with limestone dressings and lateral stacks, stuccoed courtyard blocks with brick ridge stacks and hipped pantile roofs. 4 double-depth blocks arranged symmetrically to the sides of a T-shaped courtyard. Greek Revival-style details. 4 storeys; 5-window range. A symmetrical Small Street elevation has ground-floor shop fronts and a semicircular arch to a through passage, cornice and ashlar parapet. The archway has a moulded archivolt with outer moulding of palmettes, a shell-like fanlight panel containing an acroterion above the lintel, and panelled jambs, repeated at the ends of the shop fronts either side, with plate-glass windows. The windows above have architraves, eared and battered with cornices and ashlar aprons on the first floor with a central eared square window, battered on the second floor, to plate-glass sashes. The left return is random limestone ashlar in the manner of the neighbouring former Assizes (not included), and was rebuilt 1865-70 to enclose the space in front of it. The courtyard has matching blocks facing across the sides of the courtyard, and a third across the end, with a through passage to Broad Street. Each of 3 storeys; 5-window ranges with a coped parapet, the side pair with an eared, battered architrave and 6-panel doors, that to the E end with an eared, segmental-arched architrave and large key to the passage, small end windows with raised surrounds, with curved, wrought-iron brackets to a lamp over the doorway, and a clock over the first-floor window set in an ornate square panel; 8/8-pane sashes with fine bars, some replaced with horned and plate-glass sashes. INTERIOR: the Small Street block has an entrance in the right-hand side of the passage; details include a stone cantilevered oval open-well winder stair, with wrought-iron railings, and floors of stone laid on iron I-section beams; second-floor fire surround with panelled jambs and mantle to roundels; brick groin vaults in basement. The 2 side blocks have similar open dogleg stairs, and the E block has an open-well stair above the W entrance; panelled reveals to 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron spear-headed railings and gate with palmette finials to basement steps in the N end of the courtyard, and to the NE entrance from Broad Street. An advanced design of fire-proof offices, formally arranged round a courtyard. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 252).

Listing NGR: ST5882873073

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Legacy System number:: 380559
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 252

Legal

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