Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre
901-1/16/659 (North East side)
04/03/77 No.34
Stock Exchange Buildings

GV II

Offices. 1904. Signed by WR Saunders. Limestone ashlar, roof
not visible. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style.
3 storey; 10-window range. 2 sections, canted in the middle,
1:3:1 to the left, and 1:2:2 to the right with a left-hand
door, articulated by banded Ionic pilasters with swag, fluted
ground-floor necks, foliate first-floor caps and blocked on
the second floor; cornices set forward over the pilasters,
with egg-and-dart on the ground floor and modillions and
parapet on the second. Semicircular-arched ground-floor
openings have Gibbs reveals, fluted necks, small rosettes
above, Gibbs blocks to the arches and crossed branches in the
spandrels; the doorway has matching paired attached columns
set in the returns, with an iron fanlight and 14-panel door;
plate-glass windows to weathered cills. First-floor openings
have cills with panels below, eared and shouldered architraves
with foliate panels set in the lintels, and
semicircular-arched egg-and-dart hoods with carved panels.
Second-floor windows have similar architraves, with raised
blocks extending out to the pilasters. Horned plate-glass
sashes. Outer pilasters to the right-hand section have paired
consoles above. Rear elevations have moulded architraves to
the windows.
INTERIOR: hall and central lateral open dogleg stair with
moulded square balusters and larger newels, and doorways with
pulvinated friezes and dentil pediments, panelled reveals and
4-panel doors.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or
Historic Interest: 60).

Listing NGR: ST5879772925

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568884

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2