25 And 27, Clare Street

BRISTOL

ST5872NE CLARE STREET, Centre 901-1/16/547 (North West side) 01/11/66 Nos.25 AND 27

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.25 AND 27 Scottish Provident Building CLARE STREET. Office. 1903. By Oatley and Lawrence. Limestone ashlar and red granite, with a leaded dome. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. A symmetrical 3-sided block has a tall granite plinth with raised bands, banded ashlar above to a moulded band; paired attached Ionic columns to upper floors of each elevation to an entablature and modillion cornice, set forward over the column to open pediments, separated by splayed, inset corners, with a parapet, balustrade between the pediments, and an attic drum with cornice and leaded dome with a stone domed finial. Entrances to the left-hand end and the right-hand corner have Tuscan columns, blocked to the height of the plinth, entablature blocks and segmental pediments, broken back to the middle containing a pedestal and urn, missing from No.25; lintel with split key and festoon each side to 12-panel double doors. Low basement segmental arches with tall raised voussoirs; ground-floor windows between the columns have raised surrounds extending through the moulded band, with split keys and 2 raised voussoirs. Bowed first-floor balconies above to semicircular-arched windows with coved surrounds and large split keys rising into the pediments, and festoon. Flat-headed first-floor windows over the entrances and corners have coved surrounds. Windows with glazing bars. The dome has semicircular-arched dormers to each corner, and panelled leadwork. INTERIOR: left-hand entrance hall to open dogleg stairs with column-on-vase balusters, dentil cornices to 6-panel doors, panelled wainscotting and modillion cornice. A sumptuous and compressed design owing something to the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford. (Mowl T: Bristol, The Last Age of the Merchant Princes: Bristol: 1991-: 75).

Listing NGR: ST5871772958