Gardiner's Warehouse, Former Soap Works
GARDINER'S WAREHOUSE, FORMER SOAP WORKS, STRAIGHT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1202607
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address:
- GARDINER'S WAREHOUSE, FORMER SOAP WORKS, STRAIGHT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1202607
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDINER'S WAREHOUSE, FORMER SOAP WORKS, STRAIGHT STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GARDINER'S WAREHOUSE, FORMER SOAP WORKS, STRAIGHT 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 59694 72901
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 STRAIGHT STREET 901-1/42/289 (South side (off)) 01/11/66 Gardiner's Warehouse, former soap works (Formerly Listed as: BROAD PLAIN (South side) Gardiner's Warehouse)
GV II
Soap works, now warehouse. Lower stages 1841/3, upper 1882. For Christopher Thomas and Brothers. Brick, roof not visible. Open plan. 5 storeys; 7-window range. Shallow full-height segmental-arched recesses have segmental-arched windows with iron frames; a polychrome Florentine battlemented parapet, with decapitated corner turrets and octagonal SW chimney; gable ends each of similar 2-window range with oculi. INTERIOR: entirely reconstructed. HISTORICAL NOTE: Built for Charles Thomas Brothers' soap works. Loxton's engraving (c1890) shows machicolated towers to the E end, and a bellcote to the gable of the W end. The conventional stripped elevations are embellished with distinctly Florentine or Sienese Quattrocento details; it is a prominent townscape feature. (Loxton S L: Bristol: 1885-).
Listing NGR: ST5969472901
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 380635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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Loxton, SL, Bristol, (1885)
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