Fish Market

The Fish Market, located on St Nicholas Street in Bristol, was built in 1873 by Pope and Son, with the Baldwin Street elevations added in 1897 by W.B. Gingell. The building features limestone ashlar and red brick with limestone and red sandstone dressings, topped by a glazed trussed roof. It is an open-plan structure with two storeys and a five-arch range. The earlier section is on a steep slope, showcasing chamfered square piers with flared capitals supporting stilted segmental carriage arches. There is a narrower doorway at the left end, banded rustication, a cornice on brackets, and a parapet. The entrance includes sliding wrought-iron gates with spike heads.

The eastern return has a carriage entrance flanked by consoles and wrought-iron gates. The Baldwin Street front is a two-storey, 14-window range with a symmetrical design. It features a two-window middle and end sections that are set forward, adorned with elaborate ashlar gables. Ground-floor Ionic pilasters lead to a cornice, with plain strips above a red sandstone pulvinated frieze, cornice, and balustrade of semicircular arches. The shop fronts are mostly original, with flat-arched end bays and elliptical-arched inner ones, featuring plate-glass mullion and transom windows along with a central doorway. First-floor windows have brick aprons and elliptical heads above wide transoms, while inner windows have flat ogee heads, separated by narrow buttresses with strapwork panels above. The gables are decorated with small finials, foliate panels, swan's neck pediments, and side consoles on the central gable. The interior consists of a plain market space on the first floor.