South entrance gates and flanking walls to Bristol Zoo is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Entrance gates. 12 related planning applications.
South entrance gates and flanking walls to Bristol Zoo
- WRENN ID
- south-render-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Entrance gates
- Address
- South entrance gates and flanking walls to Bristol Zoo, Bristol Zoological Gardens, Guthrie Road, Clifton, BS8 3HA
- OS grid reference
- ST 569 739
- Coordinates
- 51.46274, -2.6205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The south entrance gates and flanking walls to Bristol Zoo were built in the mid-19th century. The gates are made of limestone ashlar and feature cast-iron gates.
The entrance includes a central two-leaf gate flanked by single pedestrian gates. Each gate has upper and lower panels made of vertically set rectangles with trefoil-shaped ends, and they are adorned with a bottom, middle, and top rail that showcases a quatrefoil motif. Above the top rail, there is a decorative feature known as brattishing. The four octagonal gate piers are topped with octagonal caps and ball finials.
In the mid-20th century, heraldic painted tile plaques were added to the central two-leaf gate. These plaques display a shield with two elephant heads above a bottonee cross, along with a scroll featuring the biblical quotation from Job 12:7: “ASK OF THE BEASTS & THEY SHALL TEACH THEE”.
The curved flanking walls are constructed of coursed carboniferous limestone and topped with ashlar coping stones. The iron railings consist of cylindrical verticals with brattishing above the top rail, and the walls gracefully rise to the terminating piers, which are faced in ashlar block.
Local climate
South entrance gates and flanking walls to Bristol Zoo 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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- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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