Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/548 (South East side) 04/03/77 No.28

GV II

Includes: No.14 ST STEPHEN'S STREET Centre. Bank, now offices. 1883. By Henry Crisp. Limestone ashlar with ashlar lateral stacks and leaded roof. Single-depth plan. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A corner site with 2 window canted corner with the entrance, and a 5-window left-hand return; articulated by Corinthian pilasters, with foliate panels, to each floor, with entablature and cornices set forward to the pilasters. Full-height ground-floor openings have richly moulded, splayed reveals and spandrels, with fluted, carved columns set in the jambs, and cartouche keys: semicircular-arched to the canted sections and at each end, wide elliptical-arched between with 2 mullions as the jambs, and carved figures above the transoms. The entrance has a flat-headed doorway within the arch with a moulded architrave, a panel of bayleaf above to a segmental pediment with cartouche, and plate-glass fanlight. First- and second-floor windows have recessed panelled mullions and entablatures to windows above semicircular-arched ground-floor openings, and tripartite windows over the elliptical-arched ones with panelled mullions. The 2-window left-hand section of the return has a wide elliptical carriage arch with wrought-iron gates, and semicircular-arched windows above. Dormers have foliate-panelled Corinthian pilaster jambs to pediments, segmental to the corner dormers and end ones with finials, acroteria to the rest, and balusters between. Plate-glass sashes. Tall stacks flank the first left-hand dormer, with pilasters and cornice. INTERIOR: largely refurbished late C20. Richly decorated in an eclectic manner, notable for the full-height glazing between the cornices. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 389).

Listing NGR: ST5872872937

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