Former Hardware Warehouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Warehouse. 1 related planning application.
Former Hardware Warehouse
- WRENN ID
- narrow-beam-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Warehouse
- Address
- Former Hardware Warehouse, Old Bread Street, BS2 0FF
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 728
- Coordinates
- 51.45347, -2.58179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former hardware warehouse, built in 1882 by WB Gingell, is a soap works warehouse located on Old Bread Street in Bristol. It features red brick construction with white and black brick details, showcasing a Bristol Byzantine style. The building has three storeys and a three-window range. The ground floor includes two wide round-arched openings with large keys, polychromatic archivolts, and 20th-century glazing. The first floor has three tall semicircular-arched windows separated by pilasters that rise to a dentil plat band, while the second floor features smaller semicircular-arched windows set in a shallow recess, separated by bands of coloured and angled brickwork. The building is topped with a dentil cornice and parapet. The side elevations are made of red brick and include blind semicircular-arched windows. Inside, the warehouse has a plain interior and was originally part of the Christopher Thomas Brothers' soap works. This building is a rare example of the round-arched warehouse style that was typical of 19th-century Bristol.
Local climate
Former Hardware Warehouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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