Quay Head House
QUAY HEAD HOUSE, COLSTON AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372267
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Quay Head House
- Statutory Address:
- QUAY HEAD HOUSE, COLSTON AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372267
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Quay Head House
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUAY HEAD HOUSE, COLSTON AVENUE
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:
- QUAY HEAD HOUSE, COLSTON AVENUE
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 58702 73064
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SE COLSTON AVENUE, Centre 901-1/11/553 (East side) 04/03/77 Quay Head House
GV II
Offices. 1884. By Foster and Wood. For Bristol Municipal Charities. Brick with limestone and terracotta dressings, brick gable stacks and a slate roof. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style with Dutch Rennaissance influence. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A near-symmetrical front has a moulded plinth, entablature bands to each floor, first-floor sill band, and a tall parapet with central gabled dormer and outer balustrade. Left-hand doorway has panelled plinths to tall consoles, entablature blocks and a swan's neck pediment with a central cartouche, architrave, plate-glass overlight and double doors. Ground-floor windows have small scrolled brick aprons, segmental heads with drips over, key up to the entablature band, which has console blocks below first-floor pilaster strips, fluted above plinths, to raised blocks in the upper entablature. First-floor windows have aprons with painted shields and rubbed brick heads, outer windows set between doubled pilasters, with raised eared and shouldered surrounds; the entablature has festoon to the ends and paterae to the middle. Windows have moulded exposed frames to cross window casements. The large dormer has terracotta panels in the parapet, ogee consoles each side, pilasters above to a cornice, panelled pilasters to top section with a central semicircular-arched fluted panel, and triangular pediment; mullion window. Tall terracotta balustrade with urn finials, and dormers behind with leaded hipped ogee roofs to paired 9/9-pane sashes. Ogee gable copings with tall stacks and a steep roof. INTERIOR: panelled entrance hall and stair well, with fluted pilasters to a cornice, an open-well stair with turned balusters, square newels and curved finials and pendents; on the first floor the stair has arcades of elliptical arches on fluted pilasters; panelled shutters, 4-panel doors, cornices. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 394; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 61).
Listing NGR: ST5870273064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379333
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 394
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 61
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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