Birds Bakery, 4 Poultry

Birds Bakery, located at 4 Poultry, features a shop front designed in 1962 for Birds Confectioners by United Shopfitters of Bristol. The materials used include glass with chrome hardware.

The shop front is part of a row of buildings on the south side of Poultry and includes a central passage leading to a rear yard. The listing specifically covers the shop front, which includes the Birds signage, the mosaic-clad columns, and the east side of the central passage up to and including the mosaic cladding.

The exterior of the Birds shop front is recessed behind a colonnade of round columns, a style typical of the Great Market Place. These columns are clad in a mosaic of small blue and white squares. The front features a central doorway with double-leaf glazed doors, flanked by two projecting display windows that have tall central sections of curved glass supported on single legs. Recessed bands of glass above and below echo this curved form. The door and windows are fitted with chrome hardware. The porch is laid in pale grey terrazzo, which also forms a shallow plinth around the lower glazed band. A narrow strip of wall on the right side of the curved windows is clad in a mosaic of small grey, white, and red squares, which also appears on part of the east side of the central passage. Above the shop front, there is the original copperplate ‘Birds’ sign in illuminated lettering.