Dominions House 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.
Dominions House
- WRENN ID
- third-finial-ivy
- 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
- Dominions House, 23, 24 and 25, St Augustines Parade, BS1 4UL
- OS grid reference
- ST 585 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45365, -2.5981
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dominions House is an office building located on St Augustine's Parade in Bristol, constructed between 1898 and 1905 by architect Arthur Blomfield-Jackson. The building is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style with Art Nouveau details and is made of limestone ashlar. It features a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a five-window range.
The façade is very elaborate and stylistically eclectic, featuring wide doorways in the lower outer one-window sections and a carriage arch to a side passage on the left. This arch has blocked eared architraves, a console cornice, and a wide swan's neck pediment with a central cartouche, along with paterae to the soffit and two-leaf wrought-iron gates. The ground floor has 20th-century plate-glass shop windows separated by pilasters that lead to raised cornices.
On the first floor, the windows have moulded cills, jambs with impost bands and spiral tops, and lintels with sinuous mouldings on either side of the keys. The outer windows are adorned with bracketed cornices and swept pediments featuring carved tympani. The middle three second-floor windows are canted bay windows that are set back and flanked by pilasters rising to an overhanging bracketed cornice. These bays have attached columns with egg-and-dart capitals and gabled cornices decorated with leaves and shields, and a panel through the pediments with carved leaves. The outer windows have consoles supporting overhanging lintels and cornices. The sashes include 9-pane/plate glass sashes, with the outer windows having 5 panes.
The interior has been largely remodelled around 1985, featuring a rear dogleg winder stair with cast-iron splat balusters, fireplaces, panelled reveals, and five-panel doors. The building was originally designed to include a third-floor loggia with cupolas and a steep roof.
Local climate
Dominions House 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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