Bristol Police Headquarters Fire Station
BRISTOL POLICE HEADQUARTERS, BRIDEWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204242
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Police Headquarters Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOL POLICE HEADQUARTERS, BRIDEWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1204242
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bristol Police Headquarters Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISTOL POLICE HEADQUARTERS, BRIDEWELL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FIRE STATION, BRIDEWELL STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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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 POLICE HEADQUARTERS, BRIDEWELL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FIRE STATION, BRIDEWELL 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 58890 73318
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE BRIDEWELL STREET, Broadmead 901-1/11/475 (East side) 18/05/81 Bristol Police Headquarters and Fire Station (Formerly Listed as: BRIDEWELL STREET, Broadmead Central Police Station and Bristol Police Headquarters)
GV II
Police headquarters and fire station. Dated 1928 on hoppers. By Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Axial plan to 3 sides of a triangular courtyard. Stripped Neo-Georgian style with Mannerist detail. 4 storeys; 5-window range. A symmetrical front with 8-window left-hand section curved back, and then sharply curved into 12-window Silver Street elevation, with a fluted frieze and parapet. Banded ground and first floors to a plat band, a large central Mannerist doorway set in a semicircular-arched recess has a moulded architrave with Gibbs blocks and 5 massive stepped keys, to double 24-panel doors, with a fanlight above; a scroll above inscribed POLICE HEADQUARTERS. The left-hand block has six 2-storey vehicle entrances with stepped lintels, paired folding doors with 10 panes and an overlight; the right-hand has a pedestrian doorway set in a timber glazed frame. The 2-window Silver Street corner has an inset drum, taller than the sides, with a scrolled panel inscribed FIRE SERVICE with a shield, and the Silver Street elevation has 6 tall vehicle entrances, and 2 window sections to the left and 4 to the right. Plain windows with metal glazing bar casements. INTERIOR: few decorative elements; incorporated a yard for vehicle washing, and a tower for hose drying. To the same design as the Central Police Station (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 422; City Building Series: Burrough T H B: Bristol: London: 1970-: 128).
Listing NGR: ST5889073318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378982
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 422
Burrough, T H B, City Building in Bristol, (1970), 128
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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