Former Gardiners Offices

The Former Gardiners Offices, built between 1865 and 1867 by Foster and Wood, is now used as a warehouse. Constructed from Pennant ashlar and coursed, squared rubble, it features brick and limestone ashlar dressings, showcasing a Bristol Byzantine style with structural polychromy. The building is two stories high and has a ten-window range. Its front is regular and arcuated, with angled brickwork forming the headmoulds, a string course, and a frieze beneath the parapet.

On the ground floor, there are three wide semicircular brick arches supported by ashlar piers, originally part of five arches; the second and third from the left have been replaced by a 20th-century rolled steel joist lintel, with rubble spandrels. A deep limestone string runs along the first floor beneath an arcade of semicircular brick arches on Pennant piers, featuring impost bands and metal windows with glazing bars, topped by a rubble parapet with decorative brick coping.

Inside, the first floor has segmental brick arches on iron joists, supported by a cast-iron column. The warehouses at the back extend at right angles to the front and may be later additions, featuring wooden truss floors on timber posts and two semicircular-arched arcades leading to the rear of the circa 1845 Broad Plain block. This building was originally part of Christopher Thomas Brothers' Soap Works and is a rare example of the round-arched warehouse style typical of 19th-century Bristol.