Bristol Omnibus Company Travel and Chief Traffic Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1974. Office. 5 related planning applications.
Bristol Omnibus Company Travel and Chief Traffic Offices
- WRENN ID
- south-tin-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1974
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Bristol Omnibus Company Travel and Chief Traffic Offices, 26-30, St Augustines Parade, BS1 4UL
- OS grid reference
- ST 585 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45377, -2.59803
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bristol Omnibus Company Travel and Chief Traffic Offices is a building that originally dates from the 17th century but was rebuilt in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-frame structure with render and a cross-gabled pantile roof. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with an attic, displaying a two-window range.
The mid-19th century shop front includes Tudor arches above plate-glass windows and a central doorway supported by slender columns, topped with a cornice. Each floor above has shallow jetties, and the building is adorned with paired gables. The lower floors have paired 9/9-pane sash windows beneath the jetties, while the attic features a three-light casement window in exposed frames. On the left side, there is a stone mullion window in the attic with lattice leaded lights.
The interior has not been inspected, but there is a notable subsidiary feature: a large hanging three-sided clock with elaborate wrought-iron brackets and decoration. There is little visible evidence of the original timber framing, as the roof extends back one gable and features a 20th-century ridged roof behind. The buildings numbered 26 to 30 are now internally connected as one structure. Timber framing is illustrated in Winstone's work on Bristol.
Local climate
Bristol Omnibus Company Travel and Chief Traffic Offices 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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