Description

BRISTOL

ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour
901-1/41/1311 (South side)
Former shipwright's shop

GV II

Former shipwright's shop. c1885. Brick and timber facing with
cast-iron frame and slate hipped roof. Open plan. Single
storey; 4-bay range. The front is articulated by cast-iron
columns on rounded bases to a timber beam, with sliding doors
second from left and at the right-hand end, windows between,
and overlapping timber boarding.
INTERIOR: 3 cast-iron columns to the rear supporting queen
post roof trusses. Set between the machine shop (qv) and the
timber store (qv). HISTORICAL NOTE: built on land reclaimed
behind Jessops' Floating Harbour dam, and named after Brunel's
Under Fall culvert for removing silt into the New Cut.
Contained a mortar mill and circular saw powered by the engine
in the machine shop (qv). '..nowhere else is the essential
character of the dock landscape preserved so completely' (Lord
and Southam).
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
65).

Listing NGR: ST5717572115

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498237

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