Brislington Transport Depot Entrance And Attached Gates, Wall And Shed

BRISTOL

ST67SW BATH ROAD, Brislington 901-1/56/441 (North East side) 04/03/77 Brislington Transport Depot Entrance and attached gates, wall and shed (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD (North side) Brislington Transport Depot, entrance block only)

GV II

Formerly known as: National Carriers Depot BATH ROAD. Tram depot entrance block. Dated 1899. By W Curtis Green. For the Bristol Tram Company. Bath stone and Pennant rubble, slate roof. Arched entrance block with wings on either side set back at an angle. Georgian style. 2 storeys; 4-bay range. A symmetrical front with a tall, semicircular keyed archway beneath an open modillion pediment on banded pilasters either side; with banded reveals, pilasters divide the elevation to the side into bays under a modillion cornice and parapet; large semicircular-arched ground-floor windows with alternate chamfered voussoirs and jambs, set in rubble bays above a banded plinth, below paired, rectangular first-floor windows with glazing bars, set in ashlar under a string; the pediment bears a cartouche in the tympanum with the monogram of the Bristol Tram Company; on top is a tall square clock tower on a plinth with attached, fluted corner columns, cornice and small dome on 8 columns with an iron spike. INTERIOR: offices with few decorative details. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: detached single-storey line of garages inside Sandy Park Road boundary wall to the east of the Entrance Block, and rubble perimeter wall with moulded plinth extends W along Sandy Park Road to the bottom end of the bridge ramp. The entrance is modelled on an C18 stable block. The Bristol Tram Company started business in 1876, and had 7 depots in Bristol of which this is the only one close to its original form, with considerable architectural attention paid to the sheds as well as the show-piece entrance block. Green designed the Tramway Generating Station on Counterslip (qv). (RCHME: Bristol An Architectural Survey of Urban Development Corporation: London: 1991-: 5).

Listing NGR: ST6118771555