JOHN WRIGHT AND SONS

JOHN WRIGHT AND SONS, 44, TRIANGLE WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292097
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:: JOHN WRIGHT AND SONS
Statutory Address:: JOHN WRIGHT AND SONS, 44, TRIANGLE WEST

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292097
Date first listed:: 04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: JOHN WRIGHT AND SONS
Statutory Address 1:: JOHN WRIGHT AND SONS, 44, TRIANGLE WEST

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:: JOHN WRIGHT AND SONS, 44, TRIANGLE WEST

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 57875 73218

Details

BRISTOL

ST5773SE TRIANGLE WEST 901-1/9/303 (East side) 04/03/77 No.44 John Wright and Sons (Formerly Listed as: TRIANGLE WEST No.44)

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Attached shop. 1853. By Pope, Bindon and Clarke. Early C20 shop front. Limestone ashlar, timber shop front, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style shop front. 3 storeys; 3-bay range. Part of a terrace, which has second-floor pilasters, a tripartite window with raised surround, and parapet. The 2-storey shop front has distyle-in-antis Ionic ground floor and Corinthian first-floor columns, with a first-floor entablature and second-floor modillion cornice. Plate-glass ground-floor windows, and a central recessed doorway with panelled sides, scrolled consoles to an entablature with fluted transom and swag, and a half-glazed door with diagonal glazing bars. Coloured glazed floor tiles to the entrance inscribed JOHN WRIGHT AND SON LIMITED, with swag. First-floor bowed windows are 6 panes wide by 8 panes high, with leaded casements to the central one. INTERIOR: decorative inner shop front with elliptical arches to the windows, beaded jambs, fluted transom, swag above, and an acanthus cornice; first-floor matching fireplace has an eared surround, entablature and cornice broken out at the corners over fluted Ionic columns. One of the best shop fronts in Bristol. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 257).

Listing NGR: ST5787573218

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Legacy System number:: 380716
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 257

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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.