15 And 17, St Stephens Street

BRISTOL

ST5873SE ST STEPHEN'S STREET, Centre 901-1/11/672 (East side) 04/03/77 Nos.15 AND 17

GV II

Office. 1902-04. By Foster and Wood, probably designed by Graham Audrey. Brick with limestone dressings and a tiled roof. Single-depth plan. Domestic Revival style. 4 storeys and basement; 3-bay range. The ground floor has a right-hand entrance and drip mould with carved end stops, the upper floors recessed between short end returns with 3-storey canted timber bays flush with the ground floor, with a first-floor drip, 2nd-floor tiled pent roof, overhanging eaves with gables to the bays with barge-boards and pendants. A semicircular-arched doorway has a moulded soffit, ogee label within a rectangular lable on fluted corbel stops, and shields in the spandrels dated 1713 and 1904, with a 2-leaf half-glazed door and 4-pane overlight; a Tudor-arched entrance to a right-hand stair to the rear alley. Stone mullion and transom ground-floor windows, of 3 lights to the left, a 5-light central window with lower cills to middle 3, right-hand mullion window. A weathered band to the first floor, with a central panel inscribed BRISTOL TIMES AND MIRROR; first-floor 3-light mullion and transom windows, 2nd-floor Ipswich windows with cartouche apron panels, and tile-hung panels below 3rd-floor windows. Leaded metal casements. INTERIOR: entrance lobby with glazed floor, half-glazed panelled screens, a right-hand stair, and anaglypta ceilings. A fine facade, an eclectic mix of various styles. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 402).

Listing NGR: ST5871573002