Description

BRISTOL

ST5772NW REGENT STREET, Clifton
901-1/14/962 (North East side)
23/03/74 Nos.2-14 (Even)

GV II

Salerooms. c1883. Probably by Foster and Wood. Limestone
ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Italianate style.
3 storeys and attic; 17-window range.
A long corner range in 2 sections each of 3 bays, with a
largely C20 ashlar ground floor with plate-glass windows. The
left-hand section has a C19 ground-floor office to the left
divided into 3 sections by vermiculated pilasters, with a
semicircular-arched doorway to the left, and similar arched
windows to the centre and right.
The upper floors have alternate round- and square-ended tooled
quoins, banded on the ground floor between the windows to a
frieze and string, second-floor frieze and modillion cornice,
and attic cornice. 3:3:3 distyle-in-antis windows have
first-floor Doric columns with an entablature with bulls'
heads and festoons, and Corinthian second-floor columns with
foliate decoration to the entablature, and the cornice
breaking forward over the columns. Attic windows have moulded
surrounds with heads, volute brackets to the jambs and
cornices breaking forward. 2/2-pane sashes.
The right-hand section has 2:4:2 windows, Corinthian columns
to semicircular-arched windows on the first floor with moulded
archivolts and carved keys, the cornice breaking forward
above, and 3/4 columns on the second floor to flat-headed
windows with eared architraves, and panels below the cornice.
Rendered attic storey has semicircular-arched outer and
flat-headed paired middle windows, cornice brackets between,
and a central segmental pediment. Plate-glass sashes with
margin bars. INTERIOR not inspected.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 357).

Listing NGR: ST5717172955

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498093

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