Description

BRISTOL

ST5973NW JAMAICA STREET, Stokes Croft
901-1/6/2027 (North side)
07/11/89 Nos.37 AND 39

II

Carriage works, now offices. 1905, upper floors 1909. Cast-
and wrought-iron frame, brick and render. Rectangular plan.
Cast-iron columns with flared capitals to the lower 2 floors,
with glazed infill; upper floors have columns encased with
brick, separated by timber cornices, and half-glazed above
rendered panels; doors with margin and overlights in the left
and 2 right panels.
INTERIOR: ground- and first-floor cast-iron columns to paired
timber beams with wrought-iron flitches braced by wrought-iron
ties, plain dogleg stairs at either end. '...historically a
building of much interest, maintaining the intermittent thread
from the structural experiments of the 1840s to the hegemony
of the steel or concrete frame a century later' (Gomme).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-).

Listing NGR: ST5907473915

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 37 and 39 Jamaica Street, Bristol at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4635859

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version