Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE BROAD STREET, Centre
901-1/11/532 (North East side)
04/03/77 No.51

GV II

Office. Dated 1868. By Ponton and Gough. Limestone ashlar with
sandstone dressings, ashlar gable stacks and a slate roof.
Double-depth plan. Polychromatic Venetian Gothic Revival
style.
3 storeys and attic; 6-window range. A symmetrical front has
ground-floor 3 open bays divided by square piers with moulded
capitals, with a right-hand carriage arch, central plate-glass
window, and two C20 doors set back in the left-hand arch;
first-floor sill band, second-floor zigzag sill band, moulded
third-floor sill band, cornice and a parapet. A first-floor
arcade of 3 large pointed arches with polychrome voussoirs,
hood and carved dragons in the spandrels, a pair of 2-centre
arches within each on sandstone columns with pedestals and
crocket capitals, foliate spandrels and rounded panels in the
tympanum. Second floor has 3 rectangular recesses with moulded
lintels, each with a pair of windows with shouldered lintels
on sandstone columns as the first floor, and dated panels; the
end piers have carved imposts. Third-floor arcade of small
2-centre polychrome arches on shafts with crocket capitals,
alternate inner pairs of ashlar panels with shields held in
the jaws of a dragon. The parapet has a blind balustrade of
slim columns with trefoil panelled dies.
INTERIOR not inspected, but reported as having been
extensively remodelled mid C20.
One of a number of similar designs by these architects,
including No.18 Nicholas Street (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 375; The Building News: London: 44).

Listing NGR: ST5883373116

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497693

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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