Description

BRISTOL

ST57SE REDCATCH ROAD, Knowle
901-1/55/1558 (West side)
Laundry to the Convent of the
Sisters of Charity

GV II

Laundry, now store. c1891, contemporary with convent. By JD
Sedding. Squared Lias rubble with limestone dressings, render
and a slate cross gabled roof. Single-depth plan. Free Tudor
Gothic style. style. Single storey and basement; 3-window
range. A symmetrical front has a central projecting section
with an overhanging rendered gable, and gabled ends, lower to
the front. Central wide elliptical-arched doorway has quadrant
side windows and a central 2-leaf door, below a jettied gable
on sinuous timber brackets. Right-hand 5-light mullion and
transom window, left-hand C20 garage doors; oculi in the end
gables. INTERIOR: unmoulded semicircular arches on heavy
corbels. Part of a good group, and designed in a robust free
Gothic style.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 398).

Listing NGR: ST5990570898

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513307

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