Former Tramway Generating Station
FORMER TRAMWAY GENERATING STATION, COUNTERSLIP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282287
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Former Tramway Generating Station
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER TRAMWAY GENERATING STATION, COUNTERSLIP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282287
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Tramway Generating Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER TRAMWAY GENERATING STATION, COUNTERSLIP STREET
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:
- FORMER TRAMWAY GENERATING STATION, COUNTERSLIP STREET
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 59278 72941
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 COUNTERSLIP STREET 901-1/42/87 (North side) 01/11/66 Former Tramway Generating Station (Formerly Listed as: COUNTERSLIP STREET Counterslip Warehouse (Kinloch & Co Ltd))
II*
Tramway generating station, now offices. 1899. By W Curtis Green. For Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company. Red brick with limestone ashlar dressings. Open plan. Baroque style. 5 storeys. Tall pedimented end has a large Venetian window with a splayed, coffered central arch and narrow flanking windows, below a moulded entablature forming an ashlar band round the building, with smaller windows above in sunken panels with architraves and floating cornices. Above is a second band with roundels to the base of 4 Ionic coulumns set flush with the wall with a balustrade between, in front of a large lunette window. Dentils, egg-and-dart and modillions to the pediment, which contains a narrow louvred light below a shell within a shallow niche with an arched cornice, and parapet above; this is balustraded along the splayed left-hand corner, which contains a small doorway. The side elevations are a 5-window range of sunken panels between brick pilasters with Ionic capitals, containing 3-light ground-floor windows below first-floor lunettes with Venetian windows to the third floor, and keyed oculi above. INTERIOR: inserted c1980 interior. Green designed the shells of a number of power stations including Hove and Chiswick, of which this is considered his finest. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 390; Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 99; Grey A S: Edwardian Architecture: London: 1985-: 199).
Listing NGR: ST5927872941
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gray, A S, Edwardian Architecture A Biographical Dictionary, (1985), 199
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 390
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983)
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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