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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Warehouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRISTOL
ST5972 OLD BREAD STREET 901-1/42/147 (North side) 04/03/77 Former Hardware Warehouse (Formerly Listed as: OLD BREAD STREET Warehouse premises of Hardware (Bristol) Ltd)
GV II
Soap works warehouse. 1882. By WB Gingell. Red brick with white and black brick details. Bristol Byzantine style. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Large Pennant blocks to bases of 2 wide round-arched openings with large keys and polychromatic archivolts and C20 glazing. 3 tall semicircular-arched first-floor windows divided by pilasters rising to a dentil plat band, and smaller semicircular-arched second-floor windows in a shallow recess, separated by bands of coloured and angled brickwork; dentil cornice and parapet. Red brick side elevations with blind semicircular-arched windows. INTERIOR: plain warehouse interior. Originally part of Christopher Thomas Brothers' soap works. A rare survivor of the round-arched warehouse style considered particular of C19 Bristol. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 363; Somerville J: Christopher Thomas Soap Maker of Bristol: Bristol: 1991-).
Listing NGR: ST5967172881
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