Holbeck House

Holbeck House is an office building constructed in 1910 by Sir Frank Wills, located on Broad Street in Bristol. It is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style and features Portland ashlar with brick lateral stacks, although the roof is not visible. The building has a double-depth plan and consists of three storeys plus an attic, with a five-window range.

The symmetrical front of Holbeck House showcases a banded ground floor that leads to a moulded plat band. The upper floors include a recessed centre section, a deep moulded string course beneath a modillion cornice, and a balustrade. The ground floor is marked by four semicircular-arched openings with scrolled keys and coved surrounds, with doorways at each end featuring double six-panel doors. The centre panels have moulded cills and small pediments, along with plate-glass fanlights, while the middle openings have small canted metal-framed bays.

Above the ground floor, the central section features a shallow three-light bay on the first floor, supported by attached Ionic mullions and an entablature. There is a plinth band with a festoon leading to a second-floor Diocletian window, which has a blocked archivolt and plain mullions with festoon details and a large key. The outer windows have moulded cills and architraves, with semicircular arches on the second floor and a raised panel with festoon decoration between them. The windows are fitted with plate-glass sashes.

Inside, the ground-floor office is a 20th-century addition, and the right-hand lobby includes a glazed screen and doors that lead to a stair hall featuring an open-well stair with a lift shaft. A notable subsidiary feature of the building is a large clock, which is pedimented and supported by ornate wrought-iron brackets, located on the first floor to the right of centre.