Former Coutts Bank

38 Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282311
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: Former Coutts Bank
Statutory Address:: 38 Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282311
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: Former Coutts Bank
Statutory Address 1:: 38 Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HQ

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 38 Corn Street, Bristol, BS1 1HQ

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 58794 72976

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 March 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

ST5872NE 901-1/16/565

BRISTOL CORN STREET No 38

(Formerly listed as CORN STREET, Centre (South East side) No.38 Coutts Bank, previously listed as: CORN STREET (South side) No.38)

04/03/77

GV II

Bank. c1840, possibly re-working of mid C18 building. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Palladian Revival style. Double-depth plan. Three storeys; five-window range. A symmetrical front has a central three-window section set forward, a rusticated ground floor with impost band and plat band, first-floor sill band, banded outer sections and entablature with modillion cornice and a panelled parapet. An arcade of semicircular-arched ground-floor openings with smaller outer doorways, C20 doors and glazing and a right-hand wrought-iron gate and grille above with a lantern to an alleyway. Upper windows have architraves to middle section with first-floor pediments, segmental to the centre, on consoles, and second-floor sill blocks, to horned plate-glass sashes.

INTERIOR: extensively remodelled mid C20. (Gomme) suggests a refacing of a Georgian building.

(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 253).

Listing NGR: ST5879472976

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Legacy System number:: 379371
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 253

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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.