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
Country
England
Date first listed
5 November 1985
Type
Retort house
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

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