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Bristol Police Headquarters Fire Station

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4573 / 51°27'26"N

Longitude: -2.5931 / 2°35'35"W

OS Eastings: 358890

OS Northings: 173318

OS Grid: ST588733

Mapcode National: GBR C8J.HF

Mapcode Global: VH88N.0MHN

Plus Code: 9C3VFC44+WQ

Entry Name: Bristol Police Headquarters Fire Station

Listing Date: 18 May 1981

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1204242

English Heritage Legacy ID: 378982

ID on this website: 101204242

Location: Kingsdown, Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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BRISTOL

ST5873SE BRIDEWELL STREET, Broadmead
901-1/11/475 (East side)
18/05/81 Bristol Police Headquarters and Fire
Station
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIDEWELL STREET, Broadmead
Central Police Station and Bristol
Police Headquarters)

GV II

Police headquarters and fire station. Dated 1928 on hoppers.
By Ivor Jones and Percy Thomas. Limestone ashlar, roof not
visible. Axial plan to 3 sides of a triangular courtyard.
Stripped Neo-Georgian style with Mannerist detail. 4 storeys;
5-window range. A symmetrical front with 8-window left-hand
section curved back, and then sharply curved into 12-window
Silver Street elevation, with a fluted frieze and parapet.
Banded ground and first floors to a plat band, a large central
Mannerist doorway set in a semicircular-arched recess has a
moulded architrave with Gibbs blocks and 5 massive stepped
keys, to double 24-panel doors, with a fanlight above; a
scroll above inscribed POLICE HEADQUARTERS. The left-hand
block has six 2-storey vehicle entrances with stepped lintels,
paired folding doors with 10 panes and an overlight; the
right-hand has a pedestrian doorway set in a timber glazed
frame. The 2-window Silver Street corner has an inset drum,
taller than the sides, with a scrolled panel inscribed FIRE
SERVICE with a shield, and the Silver Street elevation has 6
tall vehicle entrances, and 2 window sections to the left and
4 to the right. Plain windows with metal glazing bar
casements. INTERIOR: few decorative elements; incorporated a
yard for vehicle washing, and a tower for hose drying. To the
same design as the Central Police Station (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 422; City Building Series: Burrough T
H B: Bristol: London: 1970-: 128).


Listing NGR: ST5889073318

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