Severn Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. Transit shed. 6 related planning applications.

Severn Shed

WRENN ID
cold-casement-indigo
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Country
England
Date first listed
30 December 1994
Type
Transit shed
Source
Historic England listing

Description

BRISTOL

ST5872 THE GROVE, Floating Harbour 901-1/42/296 (South East side) Severn Shed

II

Formerly known as: Hide Shed THE GROVE. Transit shed and office. 1863-4. Enclosed late C19. Cast-iron, weatherboard cladding, with a corrugated-iron hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Single storey; 7-bay range. A windowless range to the road with a 1-window end office bay with a sloping roof; divided by plastered flush timber piers with an open section beneath overhanging eaves, crossed by curved down pipes from the gutter, with left-of-centre sliding doors. The left return is 2 bays, with cast-iron columns with simple foliate capitals to elliptical-arched lattice beams. The rear facing the harbour has 3 sets of sliding doors. INTERIOR not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the oldest transit shed in the docks, formerly open with a slate roof, with later cladding, and known as Hide Shed. The last surviving part of a scheme of quayside transit shed accommodation which extended along Redcliff Wharf and Broad Quay. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 51).

Listing NGR: ST5888872412

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