Description

BRISTOL

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

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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

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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