The Ship Inn
The Ship Inn, Cathay, Bristol, BS1 6PA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280951
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Ship Inn
- Statutory Address:
- The Ship Inn, Cathay, Bristol, BS1 6PA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280951
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Ship Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Ship Inn, Cathay, Bristol, BS1 6PA
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 Ship Inn, Cathay, Bristol, BS1 6PA
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 59162 72222
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 August 2025 to add details to the Address and reformat the text to current standards
ST5972
901-1/42/1668
BRISTOL
CATHAY, Redcliff (South side)
The Ship Inn
20/02/75
GV
II
Public house. C18 with mid C19 refronting. Stucco over rubble walls, stone quoins, brick lateral stacks and triple Roman tiled roof hipped to the right. Double-depth plan, L-shaped to rear on right. Two storeys; five-window range. Symmetrical front has rusticated quoins, cornice with large dentils and parapet. Central doorway, flat-headed windows in segmental-arched architraves with ears and shoulders, the central one over the doorway blocked; stacks on gable and hip. C20 addition on left. Ship Lane elevation roughcast, with scattered fenestration.
INTERIOR: C20 public house interior.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 11).
Listing NGR: ST5916272222
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379094
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 11
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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