West India House
WEST INDIA HOUSE, 2,3 AND 4, WELSH BACK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202675
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- West India House
- Statutory Address:
- WEST INDIA HOUSE, 2,3 AND 4, WELSH BACK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202675
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- West India House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST INDIA HOUSE, 2,3 AND 4, WELSH BACK
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:
- WEST INDIA HOUSE, 2,3 AND 4, WELSH BACK
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 58930 72890
Details
ST5872NE
BRISTOL
WELSH BACK, Centre (West side)
Nos. 2, 3 AND 4 West India House
1/16/980
GV
II
Office. l903. By Oatley and Lawrence. Red sandstone plinth, limestone ashlar, red brick with limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks and slate roof. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. Three storeys and two attics; Five-window range. A symmetrical front is canted back slightly from the centre, a moulded plinth, banded ground floor to a plat band, pulvinated frieze and modillion cornice, attic storey and later dormers; pedimented centre set forward, with paired Ionic pilasters. Semicircular-arched doorway with coved surround and a large key, segmental-arched canopy on paired brackets, teardrop fanlight and double doors. Segmental-arched ground-floor and second-floor windows, architraves to upper floors, pediments on the first floor, and second-floor semicircular-arched windows, with a three-storey central semicircular-arched stair window, and oculus in the tympanum with relief branches; three large three-light dormers. Sashes with panes over plate glass. INTERIOR: open-well stair above the entrance hall. A well-composed facade, holding an important position and a good example of the architect's commercial work. (Scottish Provident Institution, Clare Street (qv)).
Listing NGR: ST5893072890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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