All Saints House

BRISTOL

ST5873SE ALL SAINTS LANE, Centre 901-1/11/507 (North East side) 04/03/77 No.6 All Saints House

GV II

Office. Dated 1903. Possibly by Oatley and Lawrence. Limestone ashlar, red granite plinth, slate hipped roof. Single-depth plan with a rear courtyard. 2 storeys and basement; 6-window range. A symmetrical front has splayed 1-window corners, and a 3 storeys; 1-window block set back to the right; granite plinth has tall cyma sections between the windows, sill bands, rusticated quoins to an ovolo moulding over the windows and modillion cornice. The doorway has shallow half-pilasters to brackets and a canopy, double 6-panel doors, a 3-light overlight above with raised surround inscribed ALL SAINTS HOUSE/ 1903, and a swan's neck hoodmould. The windows are set in raised full-height sections with square-section mullions, segmental-arched labels on the ground floor and transoms with drip moulds on the first floor. The splayed corners have semicircular-arched ground-floor hoods. Right-hand section has 2-light windows as the ground floor, and a left-hand dated hopper. The left return has splayed corners and a central tripartite window. Leaded upper sashes and plate-glass lower ones. INTERIOR: entrance hall to a rear lateral stair flight, with winder top and bottom sections, column balusters and newels and a ramped, moulded rail, and fireplaces with green tiled surrounds. The limestone is one of the iron-rich orange-coloured stones of Somerset or Dorset. (City of Bristol: City Engineer's Building Grant Plans: Bristol Record Office: 1851-: VOL 50 /FOL 24).

Listing NGR: ST5888273004