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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1994
- Type
- Shipwright's shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRISTOL
ST5772 UNDERFALL YARD, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1311 (South side) Former shipwright's shop
GV II
Former shipwright's shop. c1885. Brick and timber facing with cast-iron frame and slate hipped roof. Open plan. Single storey; 4-bay range. The front is articulated by cast-iron columns on rounded bases to a timber beam, with sliding doors second from left and at the right-hand end, windows between, and overlapping timber boarding. INTERIOR: 3 cast-iron columns to the rear supporting queen post roof trusses. Set between the machine shop (qv) and the timber store (qv). HISTORICAL NOTE: built on land reclaimed behind Jessops' Floating Harbour dam, and named after Brunel's Under Fall culvert for removing silt into the New Cut. Contained a mortar mill and circular saw powered by the engine in the machine shop (qv). '..nowhere else is the essential character of the dock landscape preserved so completely' (Lord and Southam). (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 65).
Listing NGR: ST5717572115
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