The Old Tramways Depot is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Tram depot. 7 related planning applications.
The Old Tramways Depot
- WRENN ID
- rusted-rafter-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol North West MP: Darren Jones (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- Tram depot
- Address
- The Old Tramways Depot, Westbury Road, BS9 3AP
- OS grid reference
- ST 572 767
- Coordinates
- 51.4883, -2.61671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Tramways Depot is a tram depot, dating to 1906, now used as a car showroom. It was designed by WH Watkins for the Bristol Tramways Company. The building is constructed of brick and roughcast, with tile hipped and gable roofs. It comprises double-depth offices to the left and an open-plan garage to the right. The architectural style is Domestic Revival. The two equilateral gables over the garage have modillioned cornices and eaves, and oculi with oak-leaf surrounds; in the centre is an Ionic column, and to the sides, piers of alternate brick and roughcast. The offices have brick plinths below the roughcast, and an entrance in a corner turret with a two-leaf door, cornice over, and modillion eaves to a conical roof with a leaded finial. Two matching dormer gables are present in the left return. The interior was remodelled around 1980.
Local climate
The Old Tramways Depot 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 — 4 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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