John Wright And Sons

BRISTOL

ST5773SE TRIANGLE WEST 901-1/9/303 (East side) 04/03/77 No.44 John Wright and Sons (Formerly Listed as: TRIANGLE WEST No.44)

GV II

Attached shop. 1853. By Pope, Bindon and Clarke. Early C20 shop front. Limestone ashlar, timber shop front, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Queen Anne style shop front. 3 storeys; 3-bay range. Part of a terrace, which has second-floor pilasters, a tripartite window with raised surround, and parapet. The 2-storey shop front has distyle-in-antis Ionic ground floor and Corinthian first-floor columns, with a first-floor entablature and second-floor modillion cornice. Plate-glass ground-floor windows, and a central recessed doorway with panelled sides, scrolled consoles to an entablature with fluted transom and swag, and a half-glazed door with diagonal glazing bars. Coloured glazed floor tiles to the entrance inscribed JOHN WRIGHT AND SON LIMITED, with swag. First-floor bowed windows are 6 panes wide by 8 panes high, with leaded casements to the central one. INTERIOR: decorative inner shop front with elliptical arches to the windows, beaded jambs, fluted transom, swag above, and an acanthus cornice; first-floor matching fireplace has an eared surround, entablature and cornice broken out at the corners over fluted Ionic columns. One of the best shop fronts in Bristol. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 257).

Listing NGR: ST5787573218