The Boardroom and attached basement window railings

The Boardroom, located at 20 St Nicholas Street in Bristol, is an attached public house built in 1867 by Henry Masters. It features a rendered exterior with painted limestone dressings and has a double-depth plan in an eclectic mid-Victorian style.

The building stands three storeys high with a cellar and has a four-window range. The ornate, symmetrical façade includes a ground floor adorned with a full-width foliate impost band and carved foliage, along with a dentil fascia cornice. The sides of the fascia are supported by consoles with acroteria, leading up to banded pilaster strips and a coved coping. The ground floor has two sets of semicircular-arched windows flanked by two additional windows above segmental-arched basement windows, which have moulded heads. A plinth supports a ground floor column between the windows, and archivolts with raised balls and a label accentuate the design. The middle window is positioned in a raised section with banded sides and slender colonnettes in coved reveals. The outer doorways feature moulded segmental heads above five-panel doors.

On the upper floors, paired windows have carved imposts and a central column similar to the ground floor, with stilted segmental-arched heads and segmental pediments on the first floor. The second floor windows have curved corners to their lintels and dentil cornices. Centrally located on the ground floor is a relief of an elephant set within an oval strapwork panel, flanked by curved consoles and a panel beneath.

The interior has been altered, and the basement windows are complemented by attached iron segmental-arched railings with finials. This building is a notable example of a vigorous mid-Victorian public house front.