Description

BRISTOL

ST5872 THE GROVE, Floating Harbour
901-1/42/296 (South East side)
Severn Shed

II

Formerly known as: Hide Shed THE GROVE.
Transit shed and office. 1863-4. Enclosed late C19. Cast-iron,
weatherboard cladding, with a corrugated-iron hipped roof.
Single-depth plan.
Single storey; 7-bay range. A windowless range to the road
with a 1-window end office bay with a sloping roof; divided by
plastered flush timber piers with an open section beneath
overhanging eaves, crossed by curved down pipes from the
gutter, with left-of-centre sliding doors. The left return is
2 bays, with cast-iron columns with simple foliate capitals to
elliptical-arched lattice beams. The rear facing the harbour
has 3 sets of sliding doors. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the oldest transit shed in the docks,
formerly open with a slate roof, with later cladding, and
known as Hide Shed. The last surviving part of a scheme of
quayside transit shed accommodation which extended along
Redcliff Wharf and Broad Quay.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
51).

Listing NGR: ST5888872412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504887

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version