15 and 17, St Stephens Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Office.
15 and 17, St Stephens Street
- WRENN ID
- western-lancet-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Office
- OS grid reference
- ST 587 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45447, -2.59558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
15 and 17 St Stephens Street is an office building constructed between 1902 and 1904, designed by Foster and Wood, likely under the direction of Graham Audrey. The building features a brick exterior with limestone dressings and a tiled roof, following a Domestic Revival style. It has four storeys and a basement, arranged in a three-bay range.
The ground floor includes a right-hand entrance with a drip mould and carved end stops. The upper floors are recessed between short end returns, showcasing three-storey canted timber bays that align with the ground floor. These bays have a first-floor drip, a second-floor tiled pent roof, and overhanging eaves with gables that feature barge-boards and pendants. A semicircular-arched doorway has a moulded soffit and an ogee label set within a rectangular label on fluted corbel stops, adorned with shields in the spandrels dated 1713 and 1904. This doorway leads to a two-leaf half-glazed door with a four-pane overlight, and there is a Tudor-arched entrance to a right-hand stair that leads to the rear alley.
The ground-floor windows include stone mullion and transom designs, with three lights to the left, a five-light central window with lower cills for the middle three lights, and a right-hand mullion window. A weathered band on the first floor features a central panel inscribed "BRISTOL TIMES AND MIRROR." The first-floor windows are three-light mullion and transom designs, while the second-floor windows are Ipswich style with cartouche apron panels. The third-floor windows are below tile-hung panels. The building also has leaded metal casements.
Inside, the entrance lobby is notable for its glazed floor, half-glazed panelled screens, a right-hand stair, and anaglypta ceilings. The facade presents an eclectic mix of various architectural styles.
Local climate
15 and 17, St Stephens Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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