The Boardroom and attached basement window railings
The Boardroom, 20, St Nicholas Street, Bristol, BS1 1UB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207533
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Boardroom and attached basement window railings
- Statutory Address:
- The Boardroom, 20, St Nicholas Street, Bristol, BS1 1UB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207533
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Boardroom and attached basement window railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Boardroom, 20, St Nicholas Street, Bristol, BS1 1UB
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:
- The Boardroom, 20, St Nicholas Street, Bristol, BS1 1UB
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 58848 72936
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 March 2023 to update the name and address, remove superfluous source details and to reformat the text to current standards
ST5872NE
901-1/16/658
BRISTOL
ST NICHOLAS STREET (north side)
No.20, The Boardroom and attached basement window railings
(Formerly listed as No.20, The Elephant Public House and attached basement window railings, ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre (North side), previously Listed as: ST NICHOLAS STREET (North side) No.20, The Elephant Public House)
04/03/77
GV
II
Attached public house. 1867. By Henry Masters. Render with painted limestone dressings, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Eclectic mid Victorian style.
Three storeys and cellar; four window range. An ornate, symmetrical front has a ground floor with a full-width, foliate impost band with carved foliage, and a dentil fascia cornice; the sides of the fascia have consoles with acroteria below banded pilaster strips to a coved coping. 2:1:2 semicircular-arched ground-floor windows, the outer ones set above segmental-arched basement windows with moulded heads, a plinth to a ground floor column between, and archivolts with raised balls and a label; the middle window is set in a raised section with banded sides, and slender colonnettes set in coved reveals. Outer doorways have moulded segmental heads to five-panel doors. Paired upper windows have carved imposts and a central column as the ground floor, with stilted segmental-arched heads and segmental pediments on the first floor, and with curved corners to the second floor lintels and dentil cornices. In the middle on the ground floor is a relief of an elephant set in an oval stapwork panel, with curved consoles and panel beneath.
INTERIOR: altered.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: basement windows have attached iron segmental-arched railings with finials. A very fine example of a vigorous mid-Victorian public house front.
Listing NGR: ST5884872936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380483
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, Bristol: The Last Age of the Merchant Princes, (1991), 39
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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