White Bear Public House

BRISTOL

ST5873NW ST MICHAEL'S HILL 901-1/4/277 (West side) No.133 White Bear Public House

GV II

Inn and stabling, now public house. c1800, mid C19 public house front. Limestone ashlar, render with limestone dressings, gable stack, roof not visible. Double-depth plan with single depth rear block. Late Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys; 2-window range. Articulated by pilaster strips to a cornice and parapet; the ground-floor public house front has right-hand semicircular-arched doorways with plate-glass fanlights and half-glazed doors, set in banded ashlar panels to a cornice, with a left-of-centre segmental-arched window with architrave and 2-light plate-glass window, and a right hand segmental-arched carriage arch with incised voussoirs and double doors. This leads through to a yard with a 3-window range return elevation, a left-hand doorway with 3-pane overlight and 6-panel door, central canted bay with 4/4-pane and flanking 2/2-pane sashes, similar tripartite window to the right, in exposed frames, 6/6-pane sashes, blind central second-floor window and flanking sashes with wrought-iron basket balconies. 2-storey rear block has 3/6-pane ground-floor and 8/8-pane first-floor sashes in exposed frames. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 59).

Listing NGR: ST5830473675