Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE BALDWIN STREET, Centre
901-1/16/675 (North East side)
No.31

II

Includes: No.31 ST NICHOLAS STREET Centre.
Office. 1898. By William Larkins Bernard. For Eagle Insurance.
Limestone ashlar with red sandstone dressings, brick gable
stacks and pantile mansard roof with slate to the lower part.
Double-depth plan. Eclectic late Victorian style with
Jacobethan details.
3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A symmetrical
front has raised ground floor with plain basement openings, a
moulded sill band, 3 flush sandstone bands, friezes and
cornices to each floor with foliate relief carving to ground
and 2nd floors, supported by octagonal pilasters with concave
faces flanking the outer windows, a parapet and raised central
dormer gable.
Right-hand semicircular-arched doorway has flattened consoles
with gadroons to the reveals and a wrought-iron gate, with an
open lobby to a panelled door and 2-light overlight; matching
right-hand window, with keyed oculi above, and a large central
window with semicircular arch and mullion and transom glazing
bars. Ovolo mouldings to outer mullion windows and large
central Ipswich windows above, with blocked first-floor
pilasters, and Ionic pilasters on the 2nd floor. The parapet
is curved down over the outer windows, with good urns to the
dies, and dormers behind; a large central 4-light mullion and
transom dormer has a gable above containing a square panel
with side consoles and a shell-head hood. Upper windows have
plate-glass sashes. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Bernard was the architect to the Bristol
School Board.

Listing NGR: ST5879272905

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497653

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