43, Broad Street

BRISTOL

ST5873SE BROAD STREET, Centre 901-1/11/529 (North East side) 04/03/77 No.43

GV II

Attached house, now cafe. C15, c1760 front, refurbished internally mid C20. Timber-framed, front of brick with limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks and pantile roof, mansard to the front. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Ground floor beneath a timber cornice has a left-hand carriage entrance to a through-alley, right-hand plate-glass shop front; pilasters above to a cornice and parapet. Segmental-arched heads with 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes, horned on the first floor. The alley has Pennant cobbles and cast-iron kerbs, with a right-hand doorway. The C15 rear elevation has first- and second-floor jetties, the upper one with exposed, round-ended joists, and an overhanging first-floor bay extending to within one metre of the left side; to the left are exposed beams with a chamfered arch brace at the end. 3-light windows with plate-glass casements. INTERIOR reworked internally in 1992/3: two C15 chamfered 2-centred arched doorways to ground floor, the left-hand one with roll mouldings to inside; between on the inner wall are 2 small reset earlier medieval figures; first-floor rear internal wall shows box frame with diagonal bracing. A rare survival of a late medieval town house in Bristol. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 71).

Listing NGR: ST5881873129