Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot
BRISTOL TRAMWAYS COMPANY AVONMOUTH DEPOT, AVONMOUTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203646
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL TRAMWAYS COMPANY AVONMOUTH DEPOT, AVONMOUTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203646
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISTOL TRAMWAYS COMPANY AVONMOUTH DEPOT, AVONMOUTH ROAD
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:
- BRISTOL TRAMWAYS COMPANY AVONMOUTH DEPOT, AVONMOUTH ROAD
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:
- ST5184378057
Details
ST57NW
901-1/52/357
04/03/77
BRISTOL
AVONMOUTH ROAD, Avonmouth
(North East side)
Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot
(Formerly Listed as:
AVONMOUTH ROAD
Bristol Omnibus Company Avonmouth Depot)
II
Tram depot. Dated 1915. Possibly by WH Watkins. For Bristol
Omnibus Company. Brick with roughcast and tiled roof. Offices
to the left, garage to the right. Single storey; 4-garage door
range. Arts and Crafts style. The garage entrance piers are
rusticated with alternate brick quoins; 2 steep gables to the
middle garage gateways have tympana decorated with plaster
cartouches. Brick plinth and roughcast above to a square
left-hand corner entrance turret with a semicircular-arched
doorway and herringbone brickwork over the door, and a clock
face above; either side are Venetian windows, under a cornice
and cyma-curved cupola roof; the parapet has brick finials at
each end. In the right facade are 2 smaller gables with
pargeting and date pad. INTERIOR not inspected. This depot is
in a similar style and plan to the Company's Westbury Road
depot (qv), designed by Watkins.
Listing NGR: ST5184378057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378885
- 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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