RETORT HOUSE AT ST 5797 7251 EAST OF GASFERRY ROAD

RETORT HOUSE AT ST 5797 7251 EAST OF GASFERRY ROAD, GASFERRY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372318
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: RETORT HOUSE AT ST 5797 7251 EAST OF GASFERRY ROAD
Statutory Address:: RETORT HOUSE AT ST 5797 7251 EAST OF GASFERRY ROAD, GASFERRY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372318
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1985
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: RETORT HOUSE AT ST 5797 7251 EAST OF GASFERRY ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: RETORT HOUSE AT ST 5797 7251 EAST OF GASFERRY ROAD, GASFERRY ROAD

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:: RETORT HOUSE AT ST 5797 7251 EAST OF GASFERRY ROAD, GASFERRY 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 57990 72522

Details

BRISTOL

ST5772 GASFERRY ROAD, Canon's Marsh 901-1/41/503 (East side) 05/11/85 Retort house at ST 5797 7251, east of Gasferry Road (Formerly Listed as: GASFERRY ROAD Former retort house E of Gasferry Road)

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Retort house. c1823. For Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company. Squared coursed Pennant rubble with rock-faced dressings. Rectangular, open plan. 2 storeys; 10-window range. Roofless; paired gables to southern block, with a transverse single gable block across the N end. Plinth, first-floor sill band, moulded kneelers and coping. Semicircular-arched openings, large doorways in the middle of each side, smaller doorways in the 3-window gables, and large round windows in the gables. Some cast-iron windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: derelict at time of survey. The Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Co was established on the site in 1823, and the extension to the W built in 1840. The retort houses (qv) and engine house (qv) form an evocative group with the walls to Gasferry Road (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5799072522

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Legacy System number:: 379597
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.