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© Ms Ruth Povey
IoE Number:
380040
Location:
FORMER GARDINERS OFFICES, OLD BREAD STREET (north side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Ms Ruth Povey
Date Photographed:
30 June 2001
Date listed:
04 March 1977
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5972 OLD BREAD STREET
901-1/42/146 (North side)
04/03/77 Former Gardiners offices
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD BREAD STREET
Warehouse premises of Hardware
(Bristol) Ltd)
GV II
Offices, now warehouse. 1865-7. By Foster and Wood. Pennant
ashlar and coursed, squared rubble, with brick and limestone
ashlar dressings. Bristol Byzantine style with structural
polychromy. 2 storeys; 10-window range. A regular, arcuated
front has angled brickwork to headmoulds, string course and
frieze beneath parapet. The ground-floor has 3 wide,
semicircular brick arches on ashlar piers remaining from
originally 5, the second and third from the left having been
replaced by a C20 RSJ lintel, with rubble spandrels. A deep
limestone string to the first-floor beneath an arcade of
semicircular brick arches on Pennant piers with impost bands
and metal windows with glazing bars, with a rubble parapet and
decorative brick coping. INTERIOR: first floor with segmental
brick arches on iron joists, with a cast-iron column. The
warehouses behind extend at right angles to the front, and may
be later infill, with wooden truss floors on timber posts, and
2 semicircular-arched arcades dividing them back to the rear
of the c1845 Broad Plain block (qv). Originally part of
Christopher Thomas Brothers' Soap Works. A rare survivor of
the round-arched warehouse style considered particular of C19
Bristol.
(Somerville J: Christopher Thomas Soap Maker of Bristol:
Bristol: 1991-; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An
Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 362).