2-14, Regent Street

BRISTOL

ST5772NW REGENT STREET, Clifton 901-1/14/962 (North East side) 23/03/74 Nos.2-14 (Even)

GV II

Salerooms. c1883. Probably by Foster and Wood. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 3 storeys and attic; 17-window range. A long corner range in 2 sections each of 3 bays, with a largely C20 ashlar ground floor with plate-glass windows. The left-hand section has a C19 ground-floor office to the left divided into 3 sections by vermiculated pilasters, with a semicircular-arched doorway to the left, and similar arched windows to the centre and right. The upper floors have alternate round- and square-ended tooled quoins, banded on the ground floor between the windows to a frieze and string, second-floor frieze and modillion cornice, and attic cornice. 3:3:3 distyle-in-antis windows have first-floor Doric columns with an entablature with bulls' heads and festoons, and Corinthian second-floor columns with foliate decoration to the entablature, and the cornice breaking forward over the columns. Attic windows have moulded surrounds with heads, volute brackets to the jambs and cornices breaking forward. 2/2-pane sashes. The right-hand section has 2:4:2 windows, Corinthian columns to semicircular-arched windows on the first floor with moulded archivolts and carved keys, the cornice breaking forward above, and 3/4 columns on the second floor to flat-headed windows with eared architraves, and panels below the cornice. Rendered attic storey has semicircular-arched outer and flat-headed paired middle windows, cornice brackets between, and a central segmental pediment. Plate-glass sashes with margin bars. INTERIOR not inspected. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 357).

Listing NGR: ST5717172955