John Wright and Sons is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. A Victorian Shop. 1 related planning application.

John Wright and Sons

WRENN ID
fallen-spindle-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Shop
Period
Victorian
Address
John Wright and Sons, 44, Triangle West, BS8 1ER
OS grid reference
ST 578 732
Coordinates
51.45636, -2.60768
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

John Wright and Sons is an attached shop built in 1853 by Pope, Bindon and Clarke, showcasing a Queen Anne style. The building features a limestone ashlar facade and an early 20th-century shop front. It has three storeys and a three-bay range, forming part of a terrace that includes second-floor pilasters, a tripartite window with a raised surround, and a parapet.

The two-storey shop front is distinguished by a distyle-in-antis Ionic ground floor and Corinthian columns on the first floor, complete with a first-floor entablature and a second-floor modillion cornice. The ground floor has plate-glass windows and a central recessed doorway flanked by panelled sides, scrolled consoles supporting an entablature with a fluted transom and swag, leading to a half-glazed door with diagonal glazing bars. The entrance features coloured glazed floor tiles inscribed with "JOHN WRIGHT AND SON LIMITED" and a swag design.

On the first floor, the bowed windows are six panes wide and eight panes high, with leaded casements on the central window. The interior includes a decorative inner shop front with elliptical arches over the windows, beaded jambs, a fluted transom, and an acanthus cornice. The first-floor fireplace matches this style, featuring an eared surround, an entablature, and a cornice broken out at the corners over fluted Ionic columns. This shop front is regarded as one of the best in Bristol.

Local climate

John Wright and Sons 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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