The Market House Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Public house.

The Market House Tavern

WRENN ID
night-mantel-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Public house
Address
The Market House Tavern, 13, St Nicholas Street
OS grid reference
ST 588 729
Coordinates
51.45377, -2.59326
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Market House Tavern is an attached house that has been converted into a public house, dating from around 1790 and designed in the style of Thomas Paty. It is constructed of brick with limestone dressings, featuring brick lateral stacks and a hipped pantile mansard roof. The building has a double-depth plan and is in the late Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with an attic and basement, and a three-window range.

Situated on a corner site, it has a splayed corner entrance with one window, giant pilaster strips leading to the cornice and parapet, and a sill band at the first floor. The 19th-century timber public house front includes pilasters flanking segmental-arched windows, consoles supporting the fascia and cornice, and double half-glazed doors. The windows feature five stepped voussoirs above 6/6-pane sashes. The right-hand return has two ground-floor windows with a blocked semicircular-arched doorway in between, and above, there are blocked left-hand windows. The interior has been largely remodelled in the late 20th century. The Market House Tavern forms a pair with No. 17 across the street.

Local climate

The Market House Tavern 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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