Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre
901-1/16/609 (North side)
04/03/77 No.35

GV II

Warehouse, now offices. c1870. Red brick with limestone
dressings, roof not visible. Open plan. Venetian Gothic
Revival style. 3 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A
symmetrical front has a moulded ashlar plinth, ground-, first-
and second-floor windows set in 5 narrow 2-centre arches
between brick pilasters with chamfered arrises and crocket
capitals, with blocks to moulded, deeply-set lintels, brick
relieving arches and thin gabled hoodmoulds; a moulded attic
sill band and attic storey with a deep cornice on fluted
brackets and an ashlar parapet with square openings. The wider
3-storey central arch has C20 double doors, and first- and
second-floor warehouse doors above with chamfered rails and
timber panels between. To the left is a 4-panel door with
chamfered rails. Outer windows have weathered cills to each
floor, first-floor lintels with zigzag moulding, and mullion
windows with top-hung casements. Attic has an arcade of
2:2:3:2:2 small semicircular-arched windows, separated by
square piers with crocket capitals, and a hoodmoulding with
heraldic beast over the capitals.
INTERIOR: 3x2 cast-iron columns with flanges to heavy timber
cross beams, and a queen-post truss roof.
A former cork warehouse, possibly by Henry Masters or WB
Gingell, and a distinctive example of its type with strong
vertical articulation to the loading bays.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 337).

Listing NGR: ST5877572724

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 35 King Street at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4635546

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (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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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House