Dominions House
DOMINIONS HOUSE, 23,24 AND 25, ST AUGUSTINES PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280093
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Dominions House
- Statutory Address:
- DOMINIONS HOUSE, 23,24 AND 25, ST AUGUSTINES PARADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280093
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Dominions House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOMINIONS HOUSE, 23,24 AND 25, ST AUGUSTINES PARADE
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:
- 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)
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380413
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, Bristol: The Last Age of the Merchant Princes, (1991), 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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