Retort House at St 5790 7252 West of Gasferry Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1985. Retort house.
Retort House at St 5790 7252 West of Gasferry Road
- WRENN ID
- noble-transept-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1985
- Type
- Retort house
- OS grid reference
- ST 579 725
- Coordinates
- 51.45019, -2.60718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retort House, located west of Gasferry Road, was built around 1840 for the Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company. It is constructed from squared coursed Pennant rubble with rock-faced dressings and features a rectangular open plan. The building is two storeys high and has a nine-window range. Currently, it is roofless and windowless, with gabled ends that include a plinth, a first-floor sill band, moulded kneelers, and coping. The structure has semicircular-arched openings, large doorways in the middle of each side, smaller doorways in the three-window gables, and large round windows in the gables. The interior was derelict at the time of the survey. The Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company was established on this site in 1823, with the extension to the west built in 1840. The retort house and the engine house create an evocative group alongside the walls to Gasferry Road.
Local climate
Retort House at St 5790 7252 West of Gasferry Road 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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