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

• Wikidata Q26491853

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