129, Cumberland Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. Office. 5 related planning applications.

129, Cumberland Road

WRENN ID
gentle-truss-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Country
England
Date first listed
30 December 1994
Type
Office
Source
Historic England listing

Description

BRISTOL

ST5772 CUMBERLAND ROAD, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1293 (North side) No.129

II

Office. Mid C19. For Charles Hill and Sons, shipbuilders. Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys; 6-window range. A symmetrical front has doorways to the centre and in splayed corners with carved acanthus capitals, to a wooden cornice that extends out over the corners on cast-iron stanchions; first-floor clasping pilasters to a frieze, cornice and parapet. The central doorway has a plate-glass overlight and 4-panel door, those to the corners are blocked; between are 8 continuous 8-pane windows with top-hung casements. 3 paired, semicircular-arched first-floor windows with sill blocks, to 4/4-pane sashes. Rendered returns, connected behind to a C20 building. INTERIOR: largely remodelled mid C20. Originally offices for Charles Hill & Sons, formed 1848, shipbuilders at the Albion Dockyard (qv). Their last ship was launched in 1976. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 82).

Listing NGR: ST5778472189

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