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

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