Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE COLSTON AVENUE, Centre
901-1/11/553 (East side)
04/03/77 Quay Head House

GV II

Offices. 1884. By Foster and Wood. For Bristol Municipal
Charities. Brick with limestone and terracotta dressings,
brick gable stacks and a slate roof. Double-depth plan. Queen
Anne style with Dutch Rennaissance influence. 2 storeys, attic
and basement; 5-window range.
A near-symmetrical front has a moulded plinth, entablature
bands to each floor, first-floor sill band, and a tall parapet
with central gabled dormer and outer balustrade. Left-hand
doorway has panelled plinths to tall consoles, entablature
blocks and a swan's neck pediment with a central cartouche,
architrave, plate-glass overlight and double doors.
Ground-floor windows have small scrolled brick aprons,
segmental heads with drips over, key up to the entablature
band, which has console blocks below first-floor pilaster
strips, fluted above plinths, to raised blocks in the upper
entablature.
First-floor windows have aprons with painted shields and
rubbed brick heads, outer windows set between doubled
pilasters, with raised eared and shouldered surrounds; the
entablature has festoon to the ends and paterae to the middle.
Windows have moulded exposed frames to cross window casements.
The large dormer has terracotta panels in the parapet, ogee
consoles each side, pilasters above to a cornice, panelled
pilasters to top section with a central semicircular-arched
fluted panel, and triangular pediment; mullion window. Tall
terracotta balustrade with urn finials, and dormers behind
with leaded hipped ogee roofs to paired 9/9-pane sashes. Ogee
gable copings with tall stacks and a steep roof.
INTERIOR: panelled entrance hall and stair well, with fluted
pilasters to a cornice, an open-well stair with turned
balusters, square newels and curved finials and pendents; on
the first floor the stair has arcades of elliptical arches on
fluted pilasters; panelled shutters, 4-panel doors, cornices.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 394; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in
Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 61).

Listing NGR: ST5870273064

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26653395

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)