Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE BROAD STREET, Centre
901-1/11/521 (South West side)
04/03/77 Nos.9, 10 AND 11
Holbeck House

GV II

Office. 1910. By Sir Frank Wills. Portland ashlar, brick
lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Edwardian
Baroque style.
3 storeys and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has a
banded ground floor to a moulded plat band, upper floors with
recessed centre section, a deep moulded string below a
modillion cornice, and balustrade. Ground floor has 4
semicircular-arched openings with scrolled keys and coved
surrounds, doorways to the ends with double 6-panel doors, the
centre panels with moulded cills and small pediments, and
plate-glass fanlights, and small canted metal-framed bays to
the middle ones. The central section above has a shallow
3-light bay to the first floor with attached Ionic mullions
and an entablature, a plinth band above with festoon to a
second-floor Diocletian window with blocked archivolt, plain
mullions with festoon, and a large key; outer windows have
moulded cills and architraves, semicircular-arched on the
second floor, with a raised panel between with festoon.
Plate-glass sashes.
INTERIOR: C20 ground-floor office; right-hand lobby has a
glazed screen and doors, to a stair hall with an open-well
stair containing a lift shaft.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a large clock pedimented with ornate
wrought-iron brackets attached to the first floor right of
centre.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or
Historic Interest: 9).

Listing NGR: ST5883773078

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570321

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