Bristol and West Building Society is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
Bristol and West Building Society
- WRENN ID
- heavy-lantern-equinox
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- Bristol and West Building Society, 30 High Street, Thornbury, BS35 2AJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 636 899
- Coordinates
- 51.60738, -2.52618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, located on the west side of High Street in Thornbury, has origins in the 16th century, with significant alterations and extensions occurring in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is arranged in an L-shape. The section of the building parallel to the road has a timber frame and is rendered (covered with a smooth material adhered to the frame). It features a pantile roof. The building is two stories high, with the first floor projecting outwards, supported by wooden brackets. The east-facing elevation includes a four-light king mullion casement window, a chamfered mullion casement, a glazing bar sash window, and a modern picture window, all on the ground floor. The north gable wall displays an elaborate 19th-century bargeboard, a glazing bar sash window on the first floor, and an early 19th-century door and picture window on the ground floor. A rear wing, facing north, was constructed in the early 19th century, with a rendered facade mimicking the appearance of ashlar stone, and a pantile roof. It is three stories high and contains a single window with sixteen panes. A six-panel door is located on the left side.
The interior reveals wind bracing in the roof, exposed timber framing, large chamfered beams, and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
The building is a prominent feature of the townscape, marking the southern end of the wider section of High Street.
Local climate
Bristol and West Building Society receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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