129, CUMBERLAND ROAD
129, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1207882
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address:
- 129, CUMBERLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1207882
- Date first listed:
- 30-Dec-1994
- Statutory Address 1:
- 129, CUMBERLAND ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 129, CUMBERLAND 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 57784 72189
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1293 (North side) No.129
II
Office. Mid C19. For Charles Hill and Sons, shipbuilders. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys; 6-window range. A symmetrical front has doorways to the centre and in splayed corners with carved acanthus capitals, to a wooden cornice that extends out over the corners on cast-iron stanchions; first-floor clasping pilasters to a frieze, cornice and parapet. The central doorway has a plate-glass overlight and 4-panel door, those to the corners are blocked; between are 8 continuous 8-pane windows with top-hung casements. 3 paired, semicircular-arched first-floor windows with sill blocks, to 4/4-pane sashes. Rendered returns, connected behind to a C20 building. INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20. Originally offices for Charles Hill & Sons, formed 1848, shipbuilders at the Albion Dockyard (qv). Their last ship was launched in 1976. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 82).
Listing NGR: ST5778472189
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 379480
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 82
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