Regent House
REGENT HOUSE, LOMBARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206353
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Regent House
- Statutory Address:
- REGENT HOUSE, LOMBARD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206353
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Regent House
- Statutory Address 1:
- REGENT HOUSE, LOMBARD STREET
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:
- REGENT HOUSE, LOMBARD 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 58658 71719
Details
BRISTOL
ST5871 LOMBARD STREET, Bedminster 901-1/45/381 (North side) 07/01/94 Regent House
GV II
Offices. 1908. By Sir Frank Wills. For the Imperial Tobacco Company. Terracotta, copper and slate. Edwardian Baroque style. A corner site with the entrance on the angle. 4 storeys; 20-window range to Lombard Street, 4 to East Street. Giant Doric pilasters on pedestals to first-floor entablature with dentil cornice. Second-floor paired Doric columns to entablature, and c1988 attic story behind original balustrade. Entrance in embayed corner between the end pilasters; doorway with rounded Gibbs surround formed from heavy torus and large scrolled key. Venetian oriel above with rocaille decoration to the bottom and monogram of the Imperial Tobacco Company. Paired slender shafts on the Venetian window and hood above. Second-floor windows carried across from side elevations. Drum and dome finish the corner, paired shafts on a swagged plinth on the drum and steep copper sheathed dome. Side elevations with rectangular coupled windows and central colonnettes on the ground and first floors above a weathered plinth; similar smaller ones on the second floor with architraves and c1988 lights in the attic. Round-arched doorway in the far right of the East Street front, with moulded imposts, key and fanlight; on the Lombard Street front, a pediment to the 11th and 12th windows from the bay above coupled windows, and containing a rocaille cartouche inscribed to the company. Semicircular-arched doorway in the 10th bay, and similar window in the 13th. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt behind the facade c1988, but Jacobethan-style chimneypieces, panelling and staircase reinstated. Built as the first headquarters for the newly-formed Imperial Tobacco Company. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 381; Bristol As It Was: Bristol's Suburbs Long Ago: Bristol: 422, 423, 425).
Listing NGR: ST5865871719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379954
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Winstone, R, Bristols Suburbs Long Ago, (1985), 423 424
Winstone, R, Bristols Suburbs Long Ago, (1985), 425
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 381
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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