The Wool Hall, Including The Fleece And Firkin Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1975. Wool hall. 2 related planning applications.
The Wool Hall, Including The Fleece And Firkin Public House
- WRENN ID
- rough-render-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1975
- Type
- Wool hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRISTOL
ST5972 ST THOMAS STREET 901-1/42/286 (South West side) 20/02/75 No.12 The Wool Hall, including the Fleece and Firkin Public House
II
Wool hall, now offices and a public house. 1830. By RS Pope, converted c1980. Pennant ashlar and coursed squared rubble; roof not visible. Open plan. Classical style. 3 storeys and cellar; 7-window range. A symmetrical front with a cornice and frieze, and a slightly projecting ashlar centre with a small pediment; a vermiculated plinth with small, grilled openings below a rusticated ground floor with 3 windows either side of an unmoulded doorway with c1980 door; rubble first and second floors have arcades of 3 round-arched recesses with segmental-arched first-floor and round-arched second-floor windows with glazing bars; a segmental-arched panel to the centre has first- and second-floor windows separated by a panel inscribed WOOL HALL. The right elevation to Thomas Lane is similarly articulated. INTERIOR: a frame of cast-iron posts to heavy timber beams, with a Pennant-flagged ground-floor, and a Pennant staircase up front right. '...the first quasi-industrial building in Bristol to attempt a real architectural facade.' (Gomme). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-).
Listing NGR: ST5913372744
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