56, Corn Street

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.