Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre
901-1/16/596 (North side)
08/01/59 St Nicholas' Almshouses, Nos.1-10
(Consecutive)

GV II*

Almshouses. 1652-6, extended C19, restored 1961 by Donald
Install. Render with limestone dressings, brick valley stacks
and pantile cross-gabled roof. Single-depth plan. 2 storeys
and attic; 11-window range. A long, regular range of equal
gables, with C19 three-gable right return, one set diagonally
across the corner. Entrance gable is slightly larger, 5 from
the left, with a bolection-moulded surround to an
ovolo-moulded timber-frame with heart-shaped chamfer stops,
and framed 15-panel door. 3-light ground-floor and 2-light
first-floor ovolo-moulded mullion windows have lattice-leaded
casements, with semicircular heads above the entrance, and
hoodmoulds to the first-floor and three C19 ground-floor
windows; small louvred windows in the gables beneath small
cornices, that over the entrance with a raised surround. The
gutters between the valleys give onto a full-width box gutter.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as being largely
remodelled in the restoration. The ceiling of the old chapel
above the entrance remains, a plaster barrel vault decorated
with figures, coat of arms and strapwork with arabesques and
birds, in manner of Vredeman de Vries (Gomme). The foundations
of a bastion of the City Wall were revealed during
restoration.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 83).

Listing NGR: ST5883172734

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Nicholas' Almshouses at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15979456

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