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Latitude: 51.4513 / 51°27'4"N
Longitude: -2.5915 / 2°35'29"W
OS Eastings: 358991
OS Northings: 172645
OS Grid: ST589726
Mapcode National: GBR C8L.VL
Mapcode Global: VH88N.1S99
Plus Code: 9C3VFC25+G9
Entry Name: Buchanans Wharf
Listing Date: 8 August 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1202484
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380303
ID on this website: 101202484
Location: Bristol, BS1
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: St Mary Redcliffe with Temple, Bristol and St John the Baptist, Bedminster
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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ST5872
901-1/42/231
BRISTOL
FERRY STREET
Buchanans Wharf
(Formerly listed as REDCLIFF BACKS (East side) Buchanans Wharf)
08/08/75
GV
II
Mill and granary, now flats. 1883-84. Red brick with limestone dressings; roof not visible. Open plan. Eight storeys; granary to North a four-window range, the mill a seven-window range. Articulated by pilasters forming shallow full-height recesses with dentil tops below a cornice, with linked semicircular ashlar arches to the ground floor, and wide sill bands below second and fourth floors; C20 glazed openings have segmental arches: the granary has French windows to the second and fourth recesses and inserted windows on the right in the former chimney, and a small central gable above oriel hoist bays either side of a tall central top-floor window; the mill has a tall semicircular-arched window on the ground floor to the right, and C20 windows in blind panels to the top storey.
INTERIOR: cast-iron columns; late C20 offices and flats. The complex was built by Proctor Baker, and the two blocks were linked by high level conveyors.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 90).
Listing NGR: ST5899172645
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