Description

ST 5873 SE BRISTOL HIGH STREET, Centre
(South West side)
901-1/11/583
No.41
04/03/77

GV II

Attached house, now shop and offices. Late medieval, substantially remodelled c1820. Front of limestone ashlar, rear roughcast over rubble; interlocking tile roof with brick stacks, mansard form to front and gabled to rear. Plan: 3-storey front and earlier 2-storey rear blocks, the latter retaining medieval fabric, linked by lower roofed passage. Front in Late Georgian Greek Revival style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. C20 shop front has right-hand doorway and plate-glass window. Pilaster strips to a cornice, weathered above to a panelled parapet; battered eared architrave to first-floor plate-glass and second-floor 3/3-pane vertical glazing bar sashes. C20 dormer. C19 sashes to rear, including large 6/6-pane sashes to light wen. INTERIOR: C20 ground floor; right-hand stair flight, and central lateral attic stairs with stick balusters and column newels. The rear block has retained two bays from a late medieval (c1400-50) roof with chamfered arched windbracing to chamfered tenoned purlins; collar truss to front and one truss with chamfered arch braces to the collar and ashlar posts on a pair of wooden angel corbels; ground floor has keyed segmental-arched early C19 fireplace; single segmental-arched basement vault runs from front to back. An highly significant survival in Bristol of fabric relating to a late medieval urban property, the only other roof structures of the period being at Quakers Friars (qv).

Listing NGR: ST5890273003

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497923

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House