Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE ST STEPHEN'S STREET, Centre
901-1/11/672 (East side)
04/03/77 Nos.15 AND 17

GV II

Office. 1902-04. By Foster and Wood, probably designed by
Graham Audrey. Brick with limestone dressings and a tiled
roof. Single-depth plan. Domestic Revival style.
4 storeys and basement; 3-bay range. The ground floor has a
right-hand entrance and drip mould with carved end stops, the
upper floors recessed between short end returns with 3-storey
canted timber bays flush with the ground floor, with a
first-floor drip, 2nd-floor tiled pent roof, overhanging eaves
with gables to the bays with barge-boards and pendants. A
semicircular-arched doorway has a moulded soffit, ogee label
within a rectangular lable on fluted corbel stops, and shields
in the spandrels dated 1713 and 1904, with a 2-leaf
half-glazed door and 4-pane overlight; a Tudor-arched entrance
to a right-hand stair to the rear alley. Stone mullion and
transom ground-floor windows, of 3 lights to the left, a
5-light central window with lower cills to middle 3,
right-hand mullion window. A weathered band to the first
floor, with a central panel inscribed BRISTOL TIMES AND
MIRROR; first-floor 3-light mullion and transom windows,
2nd-floor Ipswich windows with cartouche apron panels, and
tile-hung panels below 3rd-floor windows. Leaded metal
casements.
INTERIOR: entrance lobby with glazed floor, half-glazed
panelled screens, a right-hand stair, and anaglypta ceilings.
A fine facade, an eclectic mix of various styles.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 402).

Listing NGR: ST5871573002

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502891

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