COUNCIL HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS

COUNCIL HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, COLLEGE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1282341
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1981
List Entry Name:: COUNCIL HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: COUNCIL HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, COLLEGE GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1282341
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1981
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: COUNCIL HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: COUNCIL HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, COLLEGE GREEN

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:: COUNCIL HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, COLLEGE GREEN

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 58261 72795

Details

ST5872NW 901-1/15/72

BRISTOL, COLLEGE GREEN (West side), Council House and attached railings and piers

(Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE GREEN The Council House)

19/03/81

II*

Council house. 1935-1952. By Vincent Harris. Concrete frame clad with very wide, thin bricks, with Portland stone dressings and a leaded hipped roof. Concave axial double-depth plan. Neo-Georgian style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 38-window range. A very wide, concave bowed front has a stone plinth, first-floor plat band, moulded coping in front of the recessed attic. Full-height porte cocheres to each end, similar 2-storey one to central main entrance. Outer ones have full-height semicircular arches, single-storey side ones, to semicircular-arched doorways with 2-leaf doors swept down to the centre, and first-floor windows with Corinthian columns to pediments on balconies with balustrades. The middle porte cochere is almost detached, with an octagonal base to an ashlar dome, semicircular arches to 3 sides, and blind flanking blocks 4 windows wide. 6/6-pane horned sashes in exposed frames, alternate 3 windows on the ground floor have moulded stone architraves. A very steep and high roof with gilded unicorns to the corners of the end blocks. The rear elevation has 2-storey tetrastyle-in-antis loggias at the ends, linked by pilastrades round to the central projecting block, which has a pilastrade below very large 25/25-pane sashes, and flanking towers with McFall sculptures on top. INTERIOR: sparsely decorated in monumental manner and faced in plain ashlar; details include a central axial passage, and good lamps in the entrance lobby, which has a marble floor; complete original fittings throughout, those to the Committee Rooms being of particular note; horological clock in entrance hall; painted ceilings in the Council Room by John Armstrong on the theme of Bristol and its history, and in the Conference Room by WT Monnington on the theme of molecular and atomic fusion. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached railings and octagonal piers to the ends and ramp in front. An important work by the most celebrated civic architect of the first half of the C20. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 413).

Listing NGR: ST5825372747

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Legacy System number:: 379313
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 413

Legal

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