Description

BRIDGWATER

ST2937SE HIGH STREET
736-1/10/99 (North side)
16/12/74 No.16
Barclays Bank
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
(North side)
No.16
Bristol Hotel)

GV II

Hotel, now a bank. c1830s. Painted render, and moulded stone
eaves, pantile roof with brick stacks to gable ends.
Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Flat
arches to windows on upper floors; 3/6-pane sashes to the
second floor and 6/9 panes to the first floor where a cill
band spans the facade. 3 elliptical arches with a string
course at impost level; central narrower one has C20 double
doors and plain overlight, flanked by wide tripartite
plate-glass sash windows under elaborate elliptical fanlights
with radiating and elliptical-curved glazing bars. The window
to right has cash dispenser inserted in the space of the lower
sash. INTERIOR not inspected. History: a photograph of 1881
shows the building to be of Flemish-bond brick with fine
elliptical gauged brick arches, a large lamp on brackets over
the door and BRISTOL ARMS COMMERCIAL HOTEL painted on the
platband.
(Squibbs P J: Squibbs' History of Bridgwater: Chichester:
1988-: PLATE 127).

Listing NGR: ST2977037061

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491853

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]