28, CLARE STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. A C19 Bank, offices. 3 related planning applications.
28, CLARE STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- frozen-bracket-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Bank, offices
- Address
- 28, CLARE STREET (See details for further address information), BS1 1YA
- OS grid reference
- ST 587 729
- Coordinates
- 51.4539, -2.59537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 28 Clare Street is a bank building, now used as offices, constructed in 1883 by Henry Crisp. It features a limestone ashlar exterior with ashlar lateral stacks and a leaded roof. The building has a single-depth plan and stands three storeys tall, with an attic and basement. It is situated on a corner site, displaying a three-window range on the main facade, with a two-window canted corner that includes the entrance, and a five-window return on the left side.
The facade is enhanced by Corinthian pilasters with foliate panels on each floor, along with an entablature and cornices that project forward from the pilasters. The ground floor has full-height openings with richly moulded, splayed reveals and spandrels, featuring fluted, carved columns in the jambs and cartouche keys. The openings are semicircular-arched at the canted sections and at each end, with wide elliptical arches in between, supported by two mullions as jambs, and adorned with carved figures above the transoms.
The entrance is marked by a flat-headed doorway within an arch that has a moulded architrave, topped by a bayleaf panel leading to a segmental pediment with a cartouche and a plate-glass fanlight. The first and second-floor windows have recessed panelled mullions and entablatures above the semicircular-arched ground-floor openings, with tripartite windows above the elliptical arches featuring panelled mullions.
The left-hand return section includes a wide elliptical carriage arch with wrought-iron gates and semicircular-arched windows above. Dormers are decorated with foliate-panelled Corinthian pilaster jambs leading to pediments, with segmental pediments on the corner and end dormers, finials, and acroteria on the others, along with balusters in between. The windows are fitted with plate-glass sashes, and tall stacks flank the first left-hand dormer, featuring pilasters and a cornice.
The interior has been largely refurbished in the late 20th century and is richly decorated in an eclectic style, notable for the full-height glazing between the cornices.
Local climate
28, CLARE STREET (See details for further address information) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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