Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE BROAD STREET, Centre
901-1/11/523 (South West side)
04/03/77 Nos.22-26 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
BROAD STREET
(South side)
Nos.22, 23, 25 AND 26)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now offices and restaurant. c1770, late
C19 and mid C20 shop fronts. Brick with limestone dressings,
limestone ashlar ground floor to Nos 23 & 25, granite
dressings to No.26, party wall stacks, roof not visible.
Double-depth plan, No.24 to the rear of No.32. Each of 3
storeys attic and basement; 2-window range, No.23 of 1 window.
Articulated by pilasters above the ground floor to a cornice
set forward over the pilasters, first-floor flush sill band,
and a parapet, stepped up to No.23.
Varied ground floors: No.23 has a C19 shop front with
pilasters to paired consoles and a cornice, C20 windows with
glazing bars and right-hand door, and a C18
semicircular-arched doorway to the right with batswing
fanlight and 6-panel door. Nos 23 & 25 have C20 ashlar ground
floor with right-hand semicircular-arched doorways, that to
the right open and leading to an alleyway to No.24, No.23 to a
plate-glass door. Cambered heads to 5 stepped voussoirs,
6/6-pane sashes, horned to Nos 23 & 25, which have 3/6-pane
second-floor sashes; wide C20 dormer across Nos 23 & 25.
No.26 is painted with a good late C19 shop front in 3 sections
with granite square columns and banded antae to a fascia with
cornice of palmettes, segmental-arched central section and
right-hand doorway. Semicircular-arched alleyway with a
studded C17 door to No.26.
INTERIOR: Nos 22-25 interconnected into one office: left-hand
central lateral dogleg stairs, C20 on the ground-floor of
No.25, with uncut string, stick balusters and column newels,
ramped rails; Adam-style first-floor front fire surrounds with
pastoral scenes and rocaille with cast-iron hob grates; to the
rear in No.24 is a good early C17 stone Tudor-arched fire
surround with a cornice, shield and paterae. No.26 has a
central lateral dogleg stair as the others with flying
landings above a central light well.
(Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or
Historic Interest: 9; Winstone R: Bristol As It Was: Bristol:
1874 PLATE 19).

Listing NGR: ST5877673111

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499798

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)