Glass Chambers
GLASS CHAMBERS, 2, CLARE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282356
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Glass Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- GLASS CHAMBERS, 2, CLARE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282356
- Date first listed:
- 01-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Glass Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLASS CHAMBERS, 2, CLARE 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:
- GLASS CHAMBERS, 2, CLARE 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 58635 72898
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/539 (South side) 01/10/93 No.2 Glass Chambers
GV II
Offices. 1882. By Charles Hansom. Random limestone ashlar, ashlar exterior stack and a slate hipped mansard roof. Single-depth plan. Jacobethan style with Renaissance style details. 4 storeys and attic; 4-window range. A sharp corner site with matching front and rear and canted 1-window corner, has shop fronts with granite plinths to plain piers and plate glass, and a modillion cornice. Upper floors articulated by pilasters through cornices at each floor which break forward over the pilasters, to a fluted frieze and dentil cornice, with panelled dies to a balustrade. Semicircular-arched left-hand doorway has Gibbs architrave and incised voussoirs, a key with a carved face and 4-panel door, and GLASS CHAMBERS incised above. The pilasters have first-floor panels with foliate decoration, round panels to the second floor with busts, and first-floor niches to the canted section containing historical Bristol figures. Windows with ovolo mouldings in chamfered surrounds, narrow transom windows over the doorway and cross windows to the rest, with casements and stained glass over the transom on the first and third floors. Similar rear elevation divided by an exterior stack with quoins and a cornice; right-hand section has lower stair lights. Gabled dormers. INTERIOR: a lobby to a stone cantilevered dogleg stair across the side of the site, with paired cast-iron balusters and fluted newel. Fills an important corner site overlooking the centre. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 13).
Listing NGR: ST5863572898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379186
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 13
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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