Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Tram depot. 6 related planning applications.

Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot

WRENN ID
stranded-tin-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Tram depot
Address
Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot, Avonmouth Road
OS grid reference
ST 518 780
Coordinates
51.49939, -2.69515
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot is a tram depot built in 1915, possibly designed by W.H. Watkins for the Bristol Omnibus Company. The building is constructed of brick with roughcast and features a tiled roof. It is a single-storey structure with a range of four garage doors, designed in the Arts and Crafts style.

The garage entrance piers are rusticated and feature alternate brick quoins. The middle garage gateways are topped with two steep gables that have tympana decorated with plaster cartouches. A brick plinth supports roughcast above, leading to a square entrance turret on the left side, which has a semicircular-arched doorway with herringbone brickwork above it and a clock face positioned above. On either side of the turret are Venetian windows, topped with a cornice and a cyma-curved cupola roof. The parapet is adorned with brick finials at each end. The right facade includes two smaller gables with pargeting and a date pad.

The interior has not been inspected. This depot shares a similar style and layout with the Company's Westbury Road depot, also designed by Watkins.

Local climate

Bristol Tramways Company Avonmouth Depot receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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