The Boardroom and attached basement window railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Boardroom and attached basement window railings
- WRENN ID
- winter-hall-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Boardroom and attached basement window railings, 20, St Nicholas Street, BS1 1UB
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 729
- Coordinates
- 51.4539, -2.59364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
The Boardroom and attached basement window railings 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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