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

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)