Gardiner's Warehouse, Former Soap Works is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. Warehouse.
Gardiner's Warehouse, Former Soap Works
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pediment-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1966
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Gardiner's Warehouse, Former Soap Works, Straight Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45365, -2.58146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gardiner's Warehouse, formerly a soap works, is a building located on Straight Street in Bristol. The lower sections were constructed between 1841 and 1843, while the upper part was added in 1882. It was built for Christopher Thomas and Brothers. The structure is made of brick, and the roof is not visible. It has five storeys and features a seven-window range. The facade includes shallow full-height segmental-arched recesses with segmental-arched windows that have iron frames. At the top, there is a polychrome Florentine battlemented parapet, which includes decapitated corner turrets and an octagonal chimney on the southwest side. Each gable end has a similar two-window range with circular oculi. The interior has been entirely reconstructed. Historically, it was built for Charles Thomas Brothers' soap works. An engraving by Loxton from around 1890 shows machicolated towers at the eastern end and a bellcote on the western gable. The building's stripped elevations are decorated with distinctive Florentine or Sienese Quattrocento details, making it a prominent feature in the townscape.
Local climate
Gardiner's Warehouse, Former Soap Works receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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