Carlton Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Office. 4 related planning applications.
Carlton Chambers
- WRENN ID
- patient-paling-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Carlton Chambers, 16, St Stephens Street, BS1 1JR
- OS grid reference
- ST 587 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45376, -2.59521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carlton Chambers is an office building located on St Stephen's Street in Bristol, constructed in 1884 by TS Lysaght. The building is made of limestone with a yellow brick attic and features a double-depth plan. It stands three storeys high, with a double attic and a basement. The symmetrical façade includes entrance sections that are set forward, featuring a moulded band above the basement, a second-floor plat, and a cornice with sunken panels.
The façade is adorned with banded pilasters that have imposts leading to semicircular-arched doorways, which are topped with scrolled keys and double doors. The first-floor pilasters support semicircular arches with flat-headed windows, while the second-floor features paired semicircular-arched windows with scrolled keys and foliate pilasters. The ground floor has pilasters with vermiculated jambs supporting flat-headed windows with panelled aprons. The first-floor pilasters lead to stilted segmental-arched windows with attached balustrades, and the second-floor has paired pilasters for windows with scrolled keys and foliate aprons. There are also keyed segmental-arched blocked windows in the basement.
The interior has been extensively remodelled in the mid-20th century, with a right-hand open-well stair that includes a first-floor landing and an oval stair above, featuring decorated cast-iron balusters.
Local climate
Carlton Chambers 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 28, CLARE STREET (See details for further address information)
- 25 AND 27, ST STEPHENS STREET (See details for further address information)
- 30, CLARE STREET (See details for further address information)
- 25 and 27, Clare Street
- Bristol Stock Exchange and Attached Railings
- Former National Westminster Bank, 32 and 34 Corn Street
- 17 and 19, Clare Street
- 31, BALDWIN STREET (See details for further address information)
- Stock Exchange Buildings
- Former National Westminster Bank, 36 Corn Street