9, Marsh Street

BRISTOL

ST5872NE MARSH STREET, Centre 901-1/16/625 (East side) 06/06/75 No.9

II

Office. c1900. Brick with limestone dressings, brick ridge stacks and slate mansard roof. Single-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 3 storeys and attic; 10-window range. Set on a corner site with 2-window entrance section, 3-window curved corner and 1:3:1 right-hand return; ground-floor sill band, the upper floors set back above a first-floor sill band, and articulated by Gibbsian Ionic pilasters with a pronounced entasis and swag between the volutes, frieze and dentil cornice set forward over the pilasters. Openings have Gibbs surrounds and large split keys: semicircular-arched left-hand doorway with fanlight and 6-panel double doors; the corner has a semicircular-arched coffered canopy on paired brackets and short strapwork pilasters, over a large window with angled outer voussoirs, presumably formerly a doorway. 1 window to the right of the entrance, paired above, triple corner windows, and those in the return separated by paired pilasters; plate-glass sashes and 4 casement dormers. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST5868772836