Former Shipwright's Shop is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. A C1885 Shipwright's shop.
Former Shipwright's Shop
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-entrance-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1994
- Type
- Shipwright's shop
- Address
- Former Shipwright's Shop, Underfall Yard
- OS grid reference
- ST 571 721
- Coordinates
- 51.44639, -2.61762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former shipwright's shop, built around 1885, is located in Bristol's Floating Harbour area. This single-storey building features a brick and timber facade, a cast-iron frame, and a slate hipped roof. It has an open plan and consists of a four-bay range. The front is distinguished by cast-iron columns with rounded bases supporting a timber beam, with sliding doors positioned second from the left and at the right-hand end, along with windows in between and overlapping timber boarding.
Inside, there are three cast-iron columns at the rear that support queen post roof trusses. The shop is situated between the machine shop and the timber store. Historically, it was built on land reclaimed behind Jessops' Floating Harbour dam and is named after Brunel's Under Fall culvert, which was used to remove silt into the New Cut. The shop once housed a mortar mill and a circular saw powered by the engine in the adjacent machine shop. It is noted for preserving the essential character of the dock landscape.
Local climate
Former Shipwright's Shop receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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