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Transit Shed E

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.452 / 51°27'7"N

Longitude: -2.5981 / 2°35'53"W

OS Eastings: 358535

OS Northings: 172724

OS Grid: ST585727

Mapcode National: GBR C7L.CC

Mapcode Global: VH88M.XRBS

Plus Code: 9C3VFC22+QQ

Entry Name: Transit Shed E

Listing Date: 2 April 1973

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1282141

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380422

ID on this website: 101282141

Location: Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

Tagged with: Warehouse Jacobethan

Description


BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST AUGUSTINE'S QUAY, Centre 901-1/16/651 (West side) 02/04/73 Transit shed 'E'

GV II

Warehouse. 1894. By E Gabriel. Steel frame with red brick, engineering brick and limestone dressings, and slate roof. Single-depth plan. Jacobethan style end elevation, functional warehouse design. 2 storeys; 4-window range end, 10-bay front elevation. The end entrance elevation has a pedimented 3-window range and right-hand octagonal 3-storey dome. Alternate brick and stone bands to ground floor, and a left-hand elliptical-arched carriage arch to the dockside, with alternate stone voussoirs, carved key, and cornice. First-floor corner pilasters to the full-width pediment, bands to cill, transom band and wide lintel band, modillion cornice and pediment, parapet and central raised segmental pediment. Cross windows with metal glazing bars have fluted jambs above the transom, rococo carved lintels, and pediment tympanum with good carved female figures and strapwork, to a keyed oculus. Octagonal tower has alternate 2nd-floor windows, mullion windows to 3rd floor, separated by panelled plinths to urns, an ogee leaded dome and good wrought-iron weather vane with a sailing ship. Dockside elevation has an open ground floor with engineering brick quoins, dressings and cornice; ground-floor steel stanchions to a concrete loading shelf, sliding wooden doors to 2nd floor with late C20 plate-glass windows set between. INTERIOR: converted to shops and offices; surviving steel truss roof and steel work. Given a polite end elevation to conceal the roof from College Green at the request of the Port Authorities. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 406; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 62).

Listing NGR: ST5853872733

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