Former Hardware Warehouse

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.