John Wright and Sons, Bristol, City of Bristol

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4564 / 51°27'22"N

Longitude: -2.6077 / 2°36'27"W

OS Eastings: 357875

OS Northings: 173218

OS Grid: ST578732

Mapcode National: GBR C5J.7S

Mapcode Global: VH88M.RN9D

Plus Code: 9C3VF94R+GW

Entry Name: John Wright and Sons

Listing Date: 4 March 1977

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1292097

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380716

ID on this website: 101292097

Location: Tyndall's Park, Bristol, BS8

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: Clifton, St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SE TRIANGLE WEST
901-1/9/303 (East side)
04/03/77 No.44
John Wright and Sons
(Formerly Listed as:
TRIANGLE WEST
No.44)

GV II

Attached shop. 1853. By Pope, Bindon and Clarke. Early C20
shop front. Limestone ashlar, timber shop front, roof not
visible. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style shop front. 3
storeys; 3-bay range. Part of a terrace, which has
second-floor pilasters, a tripartite window with raised
surround, and parapet. The 2-storey shop front has
distyle-in-antis Ionic ground floor and Corinthian first-floor
columns, with a first-floor entablature and second-floor
modillion cornice. Plate-glass ground-floor windows, and a
central recessed doorway with panelled sides, scrolled
consoles to an entablature with fluted transom and swag, and a
half-glazed door with diagonal glazing bars. Coloured glazed
floor tiles to the entrance inscribed JOHN WRIGHT AND SON
LIMITED, with swag. First-floor bowed windows are 6 panes wide
by 8 panes high, with leaded casements to the central one.
INTERIOR: decorative inner shop front with elliptical arches
to the windows, beaded jambs, fluted transom, swag above, and
an acanthus cornice; first-floor matching fireplace has an
eared surround, entablature and cornice broken out at the
corners over fluted Ionic columns. One of the best shop fronts
in Bristol.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 257).

Listing NGR: ST5787573218

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