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FOSTERS CHAMBERS

FOSTERS CHAMBERS, 16 AND 17, SMALL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293237
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: FOSTERS CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: FOSTERS CHAMBERS, 16 AND 17, SMALL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1293237
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: FOSTERS CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: FOSTERS CHAMBERS, 16 AND 17, SMALL STREET

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:: FOSTERS CHAMBERS, 16 AND 17, SMALL 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 58766 73089

Details

BRISTOL

ST5873SE SMALL STREET, Centre 901-1/11/629 (North East side) 08/01/59 Nos.16 AND 17 Fosters Chambers (Formerly Listed as: SMALL STREET (North East side) Nos.16 AND 17)

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now offices and restaurant. Formerly a C15 banqueting hall, possibly late C17 front with C18 fenestration, c1846 right-hand elevation by RS Pope and mid C20 ground-floor front. Limestone ashlar ground floor, render above, random limestone ashlar right-hand return, ashlar right-hand exterior stack and double Roman cross gabled and mansard roof. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys, attic and double basement; 4-window range. A symmetrical front has 2 gables, with paired semicircular-arched dorways to the middle and C18-style shop fronts each side with shallow bowed windows set flush with glazing bars, and basement doors below the left-hand one. Horned 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, set in pairs to each gable, in a panel of raised roughcast with quoin-effect edges; small 2/2-pane attic sashes. The C19 right-hand return has an exterior stack with 3 octagonal moulded stacks to the left of a 4-centre arched doorway with a heavy plank door with moulded rails and strap hinges, a label mould to head stops and foliate spandrels, and FOSTERS CHAMBERS over the doorway. A first-floor arcade of small 4-centre arched windows, and third-floor 5-light mullion window with C20 casements. In the left return is a ground floor C17 two-light mullion window with splayed surround. INTERIOR: formerly a C15 banqueting hall with hammer-beam roof, now gone: some timbers survive with ovolo-moulded possible door frame set in the arched vaults to the rear on the ground floor. Below are three C15 segmental-arched vaults running back from the pavement, with a small lower vault toward the rear. The C19 Chambers has an entrance to a C18-style dogleg stair with stick balusters, column newels and ramped moulded rail. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house of John Foster, Mayor of Bristol 1481, founder of Foster's Almshouses and Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne. The right-hand return in the manner of the neighbouring Guildhall rebuilt to form an enclosed space in front of it. Much restored externally and altered internally. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 62).

Listing NGR: ST5876673089

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Legacy System number:: 380558
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.