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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571135

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover