Former Shipwright's Shop
FORMER SHIPWRIGHT'S SHOP, UNDERFALL YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202647
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Shipwright's Shop
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SHIPWRIGHT'S SHOP, UNDERFALL YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202647
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Shipwright's Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SHIPWRIGHT'S SHOP, UNDERFALL YARD
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:
- FORMER SHIPWRIGHT'S SHOP, UNDERFALL YARD
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 57175 72115
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1311 (South side) Former shipwright's shop
GV II
Former shipwright's shop. c1885. Brick and timber facing with cast-iron frame and slate hipped roof. Open plan. Single storey; 4-bay range. The front is articulated by cast-iron columns on rounded bases to a timber beam, with sliding doors second from left and at the right-hand end, windows between, and overlapping timber boarding. INTERIOR: 3 cast-iron columns to the rear supporting queen post roof trusses. Set between the machine shop (qv) and the timber store (qv). HISTORICAL NOTE: built on land reclaimed behind Jessops' Floating Harbour dam, and named after Brunel's Under Fall culvert for removing silt into the New Cut. Contained a mortar mill and circular saw powered by the engine in the machine shop (qv). '..nowhere else is the essential character of the dock landscape preserved so completely' (Lord and Southam). (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 65).
Listing NGR: ST5717572115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380744
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 65
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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