Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE ST STEPHEN'S STREET, Centre 901-1/11/670 (East side) 04/03/77 Nos.9 AND 11 Concorde House including railings and lamps (Formerly Listed as: ST STEPHEN'S STREET (East side) Nos.9 AND 11)

GV II

Office. Dated 1875. By JH Hirst. Grey and red granite, limestone ashlar, ashlar gable stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Eclectic Baroque and Venetian Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. An elaborate symmetrical front has 2-storey semicircular arches with grey granite plinth and red granite giant Composite columns, square responds, to entablature blocks beneath arches with moulded architraves and panelled keys with guilloche, beneath an entablature with panelled blocks above the columns, and modillion cornice; walls behind have alternate vermiculated bands. Tall attic storey has banded pilasters with crocketed capitals to a heavy bracketed cornice, a central pediment with balustrade each side, raised above, with 4 flaming urns. Segmental-arched ground-floor windows with keys and carved spandrels, and deep bowed sill above, acroteria to the arches and keys above; right-hand doorway has pilaster jambs to a lintel and 6-panel door, steps up to a left-of-centre doorway. 2nd-floor keyed semicircular-arched windows with granite shafts to paired semicircular-arched windows and a round window above. A cartouche to the tympanum, and an acroterion above the pediment. Shouldered basement windows. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with parallel bars to ground-floor windows, curved railings and 2 lamp standards with globe lamps to the middle doorway. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 352; City of Bristol: City Engineer's Building Grant Plans: Bristol Record Office: 1851-: FOL 114).

Listing NGR: ST5870673025

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