Retort House at St 5797 7251 East of Gasferry Road is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1985. Industrial. 2 related planning applications.
Retort House at St 5797 7251 East of Gasferry Road
- WRENN ID
- blind-stronghold-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1985
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Retort House at St 5797 7251 East of Gasferry Road, BS1 5DZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 579 725
- Coordinates
- 51.45012, -2.60594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retort House, located east of Gasferry Road in Bristol, dates back to around 1823 and was built for the Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company. This rectangular, open-plan structure is made of squared coursed Pennant rubble with rock-faced dressings. It stands two storeys tall and features a ten-window range. The building is currently roofless, with paired gables on the southern block and a transverse single gable block at the northern end. Architectural details include a plinth, a first-floor sill band, moulded kneelers, and coping. The openings consist of semicircular arches, large doorways in the middle of each side, smaller doorways in the three-window gables, and large round windows in the gables. Some of the windows are made of cast iron and include glazing bars. The interior was derelict at the time of the survey. The Bristol and Clifton Oil Gas Company was established on this site in 1823, with an extension built to the west in 1840. The retort houses and engine house create a notable group alongside the walls facing Gasferry Road.
Local climate
Retort House at St 5797 7251 East of Gasferry Road 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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