TRANSIT SHED E

TRANSIT SHED E, ST AUGUSTINES QUAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282141
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: TRANSIT SHED E
Statutory Address:: TRANSIT SHED E, ST AUGUSTINES QUAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282141
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: TRANSIT SHED E
Statutory Address 1:: TRANSIT SHED E, ST AUGUSTINES QUAY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TRANSIT SHED E, ST AUGUSTINES QUAY

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 58535 72724

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST AUGUSTINE'S QUAY, Centre 901-1/16/651 (West side) 02/04/73 Transit shed 'E'

GV II

Warehouse. 1894. By E Gabriel. Steel frame with red brick, engineering brick and limestone dressings, and slate roof. Single-depth plan. Jacobethan style end elevation, functional warehouse design. 2 storeys; 4-window range end, 10-bay front elevation. The end entrance elevation has a pedimented 3-window range and right-hand octagonal 3-storey dome. Alternate brick and stone bands to ground floor, and a left-hand elliptical-arched carriage arch to the dockside, with alternate stone voussoirs, carved key, and cornice. First-floor corner pilasters to the full-width pediment, bands to cill, transom band and wide lintel band, modillion cornice and pediment, parapet and central raised segmental pediment. Cross windows with metal glazing bars have fluted jambs above the transom, rococo carved lintels, and pediment tympanum with good carved female figures and strapwork, to a keyed oculus. Octagonal tower has alternate 2nd-floor windows, mullion windows to 3rd floor, separated by panelled plinths to urns, an ogee leaded dome and good wrought-iron weather vane with a sailing ship. Dockside elevation has an open ground floor with engineering brick quoins, dressings and cornice; ground-floor steel stanchions to a concrete loading shelf, sliding wooden doors to 2nd floor with late C20 plate-glass windows set between. INTERIOR: converted to shops and offices; surviving steel truss roof and steel work. Given a polite end elevation to conceal the roof from College Green at the request of the Port Authorities. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 406; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 62).

Listing NGR: ST5853872733

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Legacy System number:: 380422
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Crick, C , Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 62
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 406

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.