Description

ST57NW
901-1/52/357
04/03/77

BRISTOL
AVONMOUTH ROAD, Avonmouth
(North East side)
Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot
(Formerly Listed as:
AVONMOUTH ROAD
Bristol Omnibus Company Avonmouth Depot)

II

Tram depot. Dated 1915. Possibly by WH Watkins. For Bristol
Omnibus Company. Brick with roughcast and tiled roof. Offices
to the left, garage to the right. Single storey; 4-garage door
range. Arts and Crafts style. The garage entrance piers are
rusticated with alternate brick quoins; 2 steep gables to the
middle garage gateways have tympana decorated with plaster
cartouches. Brick plinth and roughcast above to a square
left-hand corner entrance turret with a semicircular-arched
doorway and herringbone brickwork over the door, and a clock
face above; either side are Venetian windows, under a cornice
and cyma-curved cupola roof; the parapet has brick finials at
each end. In the right facade are 2 smaller gables with
pargeting and date pad. INTERIOR not inspected. This depot is
in a similar style and plan to the Company's Westbury Road
depot (qv), designed by Watkins.

Listing NGR: ST5184378057

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499164

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