Brislington Transport Depot Tram Sheds and Attached Wall
BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT TRAM SHEDS AND ATTACHED WALL, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203950
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Brislington Transport Depot Tram Sheds and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT TRAM SHEDS AND ATTACHED WALL, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203950
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Brislington Transport Depot Tram Sheds and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT TRAM SHEDS AND ATTACHED WALL, BATH ROAD
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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:
- BRISLINGTON TRANSPORT DEPOT TRAM SHEDS AND ATTACHED WALL, BATH 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:
- ST 61248 71589
Details
BRISTOL
ST67SW BATH ROAD, Brislington 901-1/56/442 (East side) 21/08/91 Brislington Transport Depot Tram Sheds and attached wall
GV II
Tram sheds. 1899. By W Curtis Green. For the Bristol Tram Company. Bath stone ashlar and squared Pennant rubble, steel truss roofs. 4 ranges of open-plan sheds. Single storey. Two 4-bay sheds 30m NE from the entrance (qv), linked by an arch across an alley, with slender elliptical arches, inscribed with roundels, on banded piers capped with segmental pediments. Flank walls form an 18-window range, with brick dressings and ashlar impost band to segmental-headed windows. In the NW corner of the site is a 3-bay shed, the Bloomfield Road elevation of which has 3 bays each with 2 windows with metal glazing bars, segmental heads with roundels linked by an impost band, and separated by rusticated pilasters. The entrance in the right return has an elliptical arch flanked by rusticated pilasters capped with segmental pediment. At the SE end of the shed is a third block, facing SW, with 3 bays. INTERIOR: steel posts support the roof. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rubble stone perimeter wall extends along Bloomfield Road. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Bristol Tram Company started business in 1875, and had 7 depots in Bristol; Brislington is the only one close to its original form, a rare example of a complete tram depot, with architectural attention given to the tramsheds as well as the showpiece entrance. Green also built the company's Tramway Generating Station on Counterslip (qv). Gomme links EH Edwards with the design of the depot. (The Builder: London: 1900-; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 433; RCHME: Bristol An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation: London: 1991-: 5).
Listing NGR: ST6124871589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation Areas Bristol, (1991), 5
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 433
The Builder in The Builder, (1900)
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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