Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE

901-1/11/586

HIGH STREET, Centre

(West side)

No.45

(Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Bristol 1 Nos.44 AND 45)

04/03/77

II

Attached house, now shop and office. C17, refenestrated C18, refronted 1908 by JH Hirst. Timber box-frame with random ashlar front, render, with a hipped pantile roof. Front and rear rooms, with a central well and right-hand stair. A symmetrical C20 front has a ground floor with Art Nouveau-style incised timber pilasters and consoles to a C20 shop front with a right-hand doorway, a heavy timber dentil cornice with small brackets and a gable with boxed eaves and central pendant. Three-storey canted bay with oak first- and second-floor Ipswich windows with side lights, and third-floor three-light window, plate-glass casements, leaded above transoms, and rendered panels between. C17 rear elevation is a four-storey; two-window range, with shallow cornices to each floor and a gable set back behind the fourth floor. Small left-hand doorway, C18 six-over-six-pane sashes in flush frames, paired and taller on the ground floor.

INTERIOR: the front rooms are C20, with a right-hand stair flight with moulded balusters; above is a C17 winder stair, with a central light well to the left with internal windows with glazing bars, now covered by a C20 roof; first-floor back room has a C17 moulded doorway with chamfer stop and two-panel door; vaulted basement.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 March 2018.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503367

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings