56, Corn Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Coffee house.
56, Corn Street
- WRENN ID
- deep-jade-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- Coffee house
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 730
- Coordinates
- 51.45469, -2.59341
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Corn Street is a coffee house built in 1782 by Thomas Paty, located in Bristol. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a roof that is not visible. It has a single-depth plan, with the upper floors extending over the north aisle of All Saints Church. Designed in the Palladian style, the building stands three storeys high and has a three-window range.
The symmetrical front has a central section that is set forward and features a pediment, along with a ground-floor impost band, a plat band, and rusticated quoins above a frieze, cornice, and parapet. The ground-floor arcade consists of keyed semicircular arches with moulded archivolts, and below the upper panes, there are plate-glass windows. The first floor has architraves with sill blocks and pediments above 6/6-pane sash windows.
To the right, there is a matching return that is slightly narrower, featuring a left-hand doorway, a blind right-hand ground-floor arch, and central upper windows. Inside, there is a 20th-century stair on the ground floor and a central dogleg stair leading to the upper floors, which has turned balusters, column newels, and ball finials. This building was constructed by Paty to complement Glascodine's Old Post Office across the Exchange, creating a formal architectural composition with it.
Local climate
56, Corn Street 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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