Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE COLSTON AVENUE, Centre
901-1/11/557 (North East side)
18/05/81 West Gate
(Formerly Listed as:
COLSTON AVENUE
Electricity House)

GV II

Office. 1938. By Giles Gilbert Scott. Portland ashlar, flat
roof not visible. Modernist style. Deep plan offices. 5
storeys and attic; 7-window front, 15-window left-hand and
12-window right-hand returns. A curved symmetrical front, set
back above the ground floor from long side elevations, with
moulded sill band, full-length ground-floor entablature and
blocking course, coved first-floor sill band, and a plain
fourth-floor band to the front section; the sides have a
cornice and parapet beneath fourth floor set back, and attic
windows set back again beneath a deeply overhanging roof, with
thick mullions to the front. A central front doorway has an
architrave with roundels to double doors and a cartouche
above, with full-width curved plate-glass shop windows each
side, and late C20 casements above. The returns have ground
floors divided by thick mullion pilasters between plate-glass
windows, doorways to penultimate bays each end; first-floor
balconies at either end extend out of the entablature,
railings to the fourth floor and attic. The left return has a
right-hand doorway. The rear is a matching 7-window range with
end balconies, and splayed 1-window corners with a carriage
entrance to the NW corner, blind on the E corner. INTERIOR:
refurbished 1991. Forms a strong termination to the E end of
Colston Avenue.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 423).

Listing NGR: ST5869873140

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26304066

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability