Royal Colonial Institute
ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE, 2, WHITELADIES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219998
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Colonial Institute
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE, 2, WHITELADIES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219998
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Colonial Institute
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE, 2, WHITELADIES ROAD
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:
- ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE, 2, WHITELADIES 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 57779 73459
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/9/1110 (West side) 04/03/77 No.2 Royal Colonial Institute (Formerly Listed as: WHITELADIES ROAD (West side) No.2)
II
Office. Late C19, refaced 1921. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. An asymmetrical block has an angled 3-section front with a plinth, banded lower 2 floors, frieze, modillion cornice and parapet. The left-hand section breaks forward with a 2-storey tetrastyle-in-antis bow of fluted Ionic columns to entablature blocks and modillion cornice, with plain ground-floor and scrolled first-floor keys; inscribed flanking second-floor panels to half Atlas figures supporting globes inscribed AUSTRALIA and CANADA, 3 windows between have eared and keyed architraves, and parapet with 3 blind balustrade sections. The right-hand block breaks forward with single-storey tripartite entrance flush with the road, a central doorway with panelled jambs, entablature and parapet, and 2-leaf door, plain right-hand opening and left-hand window with eared and shouldered architrave. Upper windows set in 2-storey recess with a square first-floor and semicircular-arched second-floor stained-glass stair windows with blocked architrave; similar panels as the left with globes inscribed INDIA to the left and AFRICA to the right, beneath an open pediment with the Royal Coat of Arms carved in the tympanum. The middle section has plain tripartite windows to the lower floors, and Venetian to the third floor with pilaster jambs, cornice and sill blocks. INTERIOR: a large full-height stair hall with open-well stair, turned balusters and large square newels with ball finials, vine-leaf cornices, and pedimented door surrounds. Possibly built 1876 by McPherson. Occupies a very prominent city centre site. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 74).
Listing NGR: ST5777973459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380862
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 74
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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