Kingsley Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. House, office. 3 related planning applications.

Kingsley Hall

WRENN ID
turning-terrace-lark
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
House, office
Address
Kingsley Hall, 59, Old Market Street
OS grid reference
ST 597 731
Coordinates
51.45577, -2.58129
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kingsley Hall is a house that has been converted into offices, dating from 1706 and restored in the late 19th century. It features a brick-clad timber frame with limestone dressings, a brick end stack, and paired hipped pantile roofs. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the early Georgian style, standing three storeys tall with a four-window range.

The ground floor is set back beneath the overhanging upper storeys, supported by five three-quarter columns with flared capitals and cast pedestals, projecting one window's depth above the pavement. Above this, there is a moulded timber beam, with Flemish-bond brickwork incorporating yellow headers and red stretchers, rusticated quoins leading to a cornice, a first-floor drip, and a 20th-century parapet. The 19th-century shop front includes half-glazed doors with margin and overlights, along with windows featuring glazing bars. The upper windows have brick arches with keys above bolection-moulded architraves, leading to 6/6-pane horned sashes. A panel inscribed with "1706" is located in the middle below the drip.

Inside, the building has been largely remodelled in the mid-20th century, featuring a dogleg stair with quarter landings and turned balusters. Kingsley Hall is noted as the only example in Bristol of a style of urban architecture that is more commonly found in southwestern towns, such as the Butterwalks in Dartmouth and Totnes.

Local climate

Kingsley Hall 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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