The Tropic Club

THE TROPIC CLUB, 84, STOKES CROFT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292874
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
The Tropic Club
Statutory Address:
THE TROPIC CLUB, 84, STOKES CROFT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1292874
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
The Tropic Club
Statutory Address 1:
THE TROPIC CLUB, 84, STOKES CROFT
Statutory Address 2:
THE TROPIC CLUB, HEPBURN ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE TROPIC CLUB, 84, STOKES CROFT
Statutory Address:
THE TROPIC CLUB, HEPBURN ROAD

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 59154 73951

Details

BRISTOL

ST5973NW STOKES CROFT, Stokes Croft 901-1/6/2022 (East side) 04/03/77 No.84 The Tropic Club (Formerly Listed as: STOKES CROFT (East side) No.84 Bristol Unionist Club)

II

House, now club. Late C18. Render with limestone dressings, roof not visible. Single-depth plan. 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. Mid Georgian style. A wide central semicircular-arched doorway with a fine batswing fanlight, margin lights and reeded jambs and transom; ground-floor bow windows with three 6/6-pane sash windows, cornices and parapets; tripartite outer windows to the first floor, the rest are plate-glass sashes. The ground floor is enclosed by a glazed porch with stained-glass windows and a left-hand side entrance, which has a keyed and moulded semicircular-arched doorway, pilasters to an entablature and a raised pediment containing a cartouche, and swag. INTERIOR: fully panelled central hall and left-hand front room, semicircular hall arch and open-well stairs.

Listing NGR: ST5915473951

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
380630
Legacy System:
LBS

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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