Regent House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1994. Office. 10 related planning applications.
Regent House
- WRENN ID
- woven-brick-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol South MP: Karin Smyth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1994
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Regent House, Lombard Street, BS3 1FT
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 717
- Coordinates
- 51.44294, -2.59623
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Regent House is a four-story office building dating from 1908, designed by Sir Frank Wills for the Imperial Tobacco Company. Constructed on a corner site, it stands on Lombard Street, Bedminster, Bristol. The building is built from terracotta, copper and slate, and is executed in an Edwardian Baroque style.
The building has a 20-window range facing Lombard Street, and 4 windows facing East Street. Giant Doric pilasters rise from pedestals to the first-floor entablature, which has a dentil cornice. Second-floor windows are articulated by paired Doric columns supporting an entablature. A circa-1988 attic story is set behind an original balustrade. The entrance is located in an embayed corner, featuring a doorway with a rounded Gibbs surround constructed from torus mouldings and a scrolled key. Above the doorway, a Venetian oriel is ornamented with rocaille and displays the monogram of the Imperial Tobacco Company, flanked by slender shafts and surmounted by a hood. Windows on the second floor extend across from the side elevations. The corner of the building is topped by a drum and dome, with paired shafts on a swagged plinth supporting a steeply pitched copper-sheathed dome.
The side elevations feature rectangular, coupled windows, with central colonnettes on the ground and first floors standing above a weathered plinth. Similar, smaller colonnettes are present on the second floor, accompanied by architraves and circa-1988 lighting in the attic. An arched doorway with moulded imposts, a key and fanlight is found in the far right of the East Street front. The Lombard Street facade displays a pediment over the 11th and 12th windows, containing a rocaille cartouche inscribed to the company, along with semicircular arched doorways in the 10th and 13th bays.
The interior was largely rebuilt in circa-1988, but original Jacobethan-style chimneypieces, panelling and a staircase have been reinstated. Regent House was originally constructed as the first headquarters for the newly-formed Imperial Tobacco Company.
Local climate
Regent House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 71 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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