Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre
901-1/16/664 (South side)
04/03/77 Fish Market

GV II

Includes: Nos.45-57 BALDWIN STREET Centre.
Fish market and shops. 1873, by Pope and Son, to Baldwin
Street elevations front dated 1897, by WB Gingell. Limestone
ashlar, red brick with limestone and red sandstone dressings,
glazed trussed roof. Open plan.
2 storeys; 5-arch range. The earlier side is to the first
floor, being built along a steep slope: chamfered square piers
with flared capitals to stilted segmental carriage arches,
narrower doorway to the left end, banded rustication, cornice
on brackets and parapet. Sliding wrought-iron gates with spike
heads. The E return has a carriage entrance with side consoles
and wrought-iron gates.
Baldwin Street front of brick, a 2-storey; 14-window range. A
symmetrical front with 2-window middle and end sections set
forward with elaborate ashlar gables, articulated by
ground-floor Ionic pilasters to a cornice, plain strips above
to a red sandstone pulvinated frieze, cornice and balustrade
of semicircular arches. Mostly original shop fronts, with
flat-arched end bays and elliptical-arched inner ones,
plate-glass mullion and transom windows with a central
doorway. First-floor windows have brick aprons, elliptical
heads to the forward ones above wide transoms, inner ones with
flat ogee heads, separated by narrow buttresses, with
strapwork panels above; gables have small finials, foliate
panels, swan's neck pediments, and side consoles to the
central one.
INTERIOR: plain market interior to first floor.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 389).

Listing NGR: ST5884272907

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498147

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