The Old Tramways Depot
THE OLD TRAMWAYS DEPOT, WESTBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282060
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Tramways Depot
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD TRAMWAYS DEPOT, WESTBURY ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/00375/24
- Rights:
- © Mr Cyril N. Chapman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282060
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Tramways Depot
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD TRAMWAYS DEPOT, WESTBURY 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:
- THE OLD TRAMWAYS DEPOT, WESTBURY 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 57277 76775
Details
BRISTOL
ST5776 WESTBURY ROAD, Westbury On Trym 901-1/28/2094 (East side) 04/03/77 The Old Tramways Depot (Formerly Listed as: WESTBURY ROAD (East side) Garage premises of Welch and Company)
II
Tram depot, now car showroom. 1906. By WH Watkins. For Bristol Tramways Company. Brick and roughcast, tile hipped and gable roofs. Double-depth offices to left, open-plan garage to right. Domestic Revival style. 2 equilateral gables over the garage have modillioned cornices and eaves, and oculi with oak-leaf surrounds; to the middle is an Ionic column, and to the sides, piers of alternate brick and roughcast; offices have brick plinths below roughcast, the entrance in a corner turret with a 2-leaf door, cornice over, and modillion eaves to a conical roof with a leaded finial; 2 matching dormer gables in the left return. INTERIOR: remodelled c1980.
Listing NGR: ST5727776775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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