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Severn Shed

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Latitude: 51.4492 / 51°26'57"N

Longitude: -2.593 / 2°35'34"W

OS Eastings: 358888

OS Northings: 172412

OS Grid: ST588724

Mapcode National: GBR C8M.JB

Mapcode Global: VH88N.0TKX

Plus Code: 9C3VCCX4+MR

Entry Name: Severn Shed

Listing Date: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1209838

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380679

ID on this website: 101209838

Location: Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



BRISTOL

ST5872 THE GROVE, Floating Harbour
901-1/42/296 (South East side)
Severn Shed

II

Formerly known as: Hide Shed THE GROVE.
Transit shed and office. 1863-4. Enclosed late C19. Cast-iron,
weatherboard cladding, with a corrugated-iron hipped roof.
Single-depth plan.
Single storey; 7-bay range. A windowless range to the road
with a 1-window end office bay with a sloping roof; divided by
plastered flush timber piers with an open section beneath
overhanging eaves, crossed by curved down pipes from the
gutter, with left-of-centre sliding doors. The left return is
2 bays, with cast-iron columns with simple foliate capitals to
elliptical-arched lattice beams. The rear facing the harbour
has 3 sets of sliding doors. INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the oldest transit shed in the docks,
formerly open with a slate roof, with later cladding, and
known as Hide Shed. The last surviving part of a scheme of
quayside transit shed accommodation which extended along
Redcliff Wharf and Broad Quay.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
51).


Listing NGR: ST5888872412

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