Royal Colonial Institute

BRISTOL

ST5773SE WHITELADIES ROAD, Clifton 901-1/9/1110 (West side) 04/03/77 No.2 Royal Colonial Institute (Formerly Listed as: WHITELADIES ROAD (West side) No.2)

II

Office. Late C19, refaced 1921. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 3 storeys; 7-window range. An asymmetrical block has an angled 3-section front with a plinth, banded lower 2 floors, frieze, modillion cornice and parapet. The left-hand section breaks forward with a 2-storey tetrastyle-in-antis bow of fluted Ionic columns to entablature blocks and modillion cornice, with plain ground-floor and scrolled first-floor keys; inscribed flanking second-floor panels to half Atlas figures supporting globes inscribed AUSTRALIA and CANADA, 3 windows between have eared and keyed architraves, and parapet with 3 blind balustrade sections. The right-hand block breaks forward with single-storey tripartite entrance flush with the road, a central doorway with panelled jambs, entablature and parapet, and 2-leaf door, plain right-hand opening and left-hand window with eared and shouldered architrave. Upper windows set in 2-storey recess with a square first-floor and semicircular-arched second-floor stained-glass stair windows with blocked architrave; similar panels as the left with globes inscribed INDIA to the left and AFRICA to the right, beneath an open pediment with the Royal Coat of Arms carved in the tympanum. The middle section has plain tripartite windows to the lower floors, and Venetian to the third floor with pilaster jambs, cornice and sill blocks. INTERIOR: a large full-height stair hall with open-well stair, turned balusters and large square newels with ball finials, vine-leaf cornices, and pedimented door surrounds. Possibly built 1876 by McPherson. Occupies a very prominent city centre site. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 74).

Listing NGR: ST5777973459