Description

BRISTOL

ST5972 COUNTERSLIP STREET
901-1/42/87 (North side)
01/11/66 Former Tramway Generating Station
(Formerly Listed as:
COUNTERSLIP STREET
Counterslip Warehouse (Kinloch & Co
Ltd))

II*

Tramway generating station, now offices. 1899. By W Curtis
Green. For Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company. Red brick
with limestone ashlar dressings. Open plan. Baroque style.
5 storeys. Tall pedimented end has a large Venetian window
with a splayed, coffered central arch and narrow flanking
windows, below a moulded entablature forming an ashlar band
round the building, with smaller windows above in sunken
panels with architraves and floating cornices. Above is a
second band with roundels to the base of 4 Ionic coulumns set
flush with the wall with a balustrade between, in front of a
large lunette window. Dentils, egg-and-dart and modillions to
the pediment, which contains a narrow louvred light below a
shell within a shallow niche with an arched cornice, and
parapet above; this is balustraded along the splayed left-hand
corner, which contains a small doorway. The side elevations
are a 5-window range of sunken panels between brick pilasters
with Ionic capitals, containing 3-light ground-floor windows
below first-floor lunettes with Venetian windows to the third
floor, and keyed oculi above.
INTERIOR: inserted c1980 interior.
Green designed the shells of a number of power stations
including Hove and Chiswick, of which this is considered his
finest.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 390; Lord J and Southam J: The
Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 99; Grey A S: Edwardian
Architecture: London: 1985-: 199).

Listing NGR: ST5927872941

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553158

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)