54, Baldwin Street

This is a four-storey warehouse, now used as offices, built in 1854 by WB Gingell. It is situated on the south side of Baldwin Street, in Bristol's Centre. The building is constructed with a red sandstone plinth, rock-faced limestone ashlar, and coursed, squared Pennant stone, with limestone dressings. The front is symmetrical with a three-window range. The ground floor features a 20th-century shop front with Ionic pilasters flanking the doorways. Above this is a bracketed cornice with patera, and a parapet with panels between dies bearing acroteria. The windows are set within segmental arches, with rusticated voussoirs on Pennant pilasters. The segmental-arched windows have architraves, heavy keys and carved foliate spandrels, heavy lintels to the first and second floors, and ashlar voussoirs to the third. The windows contain 3/1-pane horned sashes. The upper floors return slightly to the right. The interior was largely remodelled in the mid-20th century. The building was formerly part of a sugar warehouse.