Description

BRISTOL

ST5772 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Floating Harbour
901-1/41/1293 (North side)
No.129

II

Office. Mid C19. For Charles Hill and Sons, shipbuilders.
Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, roof not visible.
Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys; 6-window
range. A symmetrical front has doorways to the centre and in
splayed corners with carved acanthus capitals, to a wooden
cornice that extends out over the corners on cast-iron
stanchions; first-floor clasping pilasters to a frieze,
cornice and parapet. The central doorway has a plate-glass
overlight and 4-panel door, those to the corners are blocked;
between are 8 continuous 8-pane windows with top-hung
casements. 3 paired, semicircular-arched first-floor windows
with sill blocks, to 4/4-pane sashes. Rendered returns,
connected behind to a C20 building. INTERIOR: largely
remodelled mid C20. Originally offices for Charles Hill &
Sons, formed 1848, shipbuilders at the Albion Dockyard (qv).
Their last ship was launched in 1976.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
82).

Listing NGR: ST5778472189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502996

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)