The Punchbowl Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1972. Public house. 9 related planning applications.
The Punchbowl Public House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-mortar-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Punchbowl Public House, 23, Old Market Street, BS2 0HB
- OS grid reference
- ST 596 731
- Coordinates
- 51.4562, -2.58276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Punchbowl Public House is a mid-18th century building, altered in the early 19th century and with a late 19th-century public house front. It is located on the north side of Old Market Street in Bristol. The building is stuccoed with limestone dressings, features a brick stack on the right-hand side, and has a ground floor finished with green glazed tiles. It has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys high, with a two-window front.
The symmetrical front is topped by a parapet. It has elliptical arched doorways to the outer sides, each with a six-pane fanlight and a half-glazed double door. A wider elliptical arched window occupies the centre of the ground floor, with darker pilaster strips that have reeded necks, and a fascia finished with brown glazed brick. The first-floor windows are low, and the second-floor windows are taller, each with horned plate-glass sashes.
Inside, the building retains cross beams, with the front beam stop-chamfered with moulded stops. A 20th-century staircase is located on the left-hand side of the building.
Local climate
The Punchbowl Public House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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