Description

BRISTOL

ST6072 AVON STREET, St Philip
901-1/43/1921 (East side)
Warehouse, former premises of Marble
Mosaic Company

II

Warehouse. Mid C19. Pennant rubble, brick and steel truss roof
with corrugated sheets. Rectangular open-plan sheds divided
into 3. Single storey; 9-window range. 3 gables with a plinth,
each with 3 rock-faced semicircular vehicle arches, now
infilled to plinth height with brick and C20 glazing; four C20
openings have reinforced concrete lintels to the 3rd, 5th, 7th
and 9th arches; first-floor string below smaller arched
windows with C20 glazing, and a small string above. C20 raised
roof with brick walls and gables. Side elevations have 6 upper
semicircular arches. INTERIOR: inserted first floor on steel
stanchions in the middle shed.
HISTORICAL NOTE: possibly the Coke House for the Avon Street
gas works, and may subsequently have been part of James Gibbs'
Vitriol Works, shown on Lemarr's View of 1887.
(RCHME: Bristol, Architectural Survey of Urban Development
Corporation: London: 1991-: 11).

Listing NGR: ST6004572422

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497652

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings