Dominions House

DOMINIONS HOUSE, 23,24 AND 25, ST AUGUSTINES PARADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1280093
Date first listed:
20-Mar-1974
Statutory Address:
DOMINIONS HOUSE, 23,24 AND 25, ST AUGUSTINES PARADE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1280093
Date first listed:
20-Mar-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
Statutory Address 1:
DOMINIONS HOUSE, 23,24 AND 25, ST AUGUSTINES PARADE

Location

Statutory Address:
DOMINIONS HOUSE, 23,24 AND 25, ST AUGUSTINES PARADE

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 58538 72910

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST AUGUSTINE'S PARADE, Centre 901-1/16/644 (West side) 20/03/74 Nos.23, 24 AND 25 Dominions House (Formerly Listed as: ST AUGUSTINE'S PARADE Nos.23-25 (Consecutive) Dominion Mansions)

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Office. 1898-1905. By Arthur Blomfield-Jackson. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style with Art Nouveau details. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Very elaborate and stylistically eclectic: wide doorways in lower outer 1-window sections, a carriage arch to a side passage on the left, with blocked eared architraves, console cornice and wide swan's neck pediment with a central cartouche, paterae to soffit and 2-leaf wrought-iron gates. C20 plate-glass shop windows separated by pilasters to raised cornices. First-floor windows have moulded cills, jambs with impost bands and spiral tops, and lintels with sinuous mouldings either side of the keys; outer windows have bracketed cornices and swept pediments with carved tympani. Middle 3 second-floor canted bay windows set back, with pilasters to the sides rising to an overhanging bracketed cornice: bays have attached columns to egg-and-dart capitals and gabled cornices with leaves and shields inside, and a panel through the pediments with carved leaves. Outer windows have consoles to overhanging lintels and cornices. Sashes with 9-pane/plate glass sashes, 5-pane to the outer windows. INTERIOR: largely remodelled c1985; rear dogleg winder stair with cast-iron splat balusters, fireplaces, panelled reveals and 5-panel doors. Designed to have a third-floor loggia with cupolas and a steep roof. (Mowl T: Bristol, The Last Age of the Merchant Princes: Bristol: 1991-: 74).

Listing NGR: ST5853872910

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Mowl, T, Bristol: The Last Age of the Merchant Princes, (1991), 74

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