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© Ms Ruth Povey
IoE Number:
380514
Location:
THE WOOL HALL, INCLUDING THE FLEECE AND FIRKIN PUBLIC HOUSE, 12 ST THOMAS STREET (south west side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Ms Ruth Povey
Date Photographed:
30 June 2001
Date listed:
20 February 1975
Date of last amendment:
20 February 1975
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5972 ST THOMAS STREET
901-1/42/286 (South West side)
20/02/75 No.12
The Wool Hall, including the Fleece
and Firkin Public House
II
Wool hall, now offices and a public house. 1830. By RS Pope,
converted c1980. Pennant ashlar and coursed squared rubble;
roof not visible. Open plan. Classical style.
3 storeys and cellar; 7-window range. A symmetrical front with
a cornice and frieze, and a slightly projecting ashlar centre
with a small pediment; a vermiculated plinth with small,
grilled openings below a rusticated ground floor with 3
windows either side of an unmoulded doorway with c1980 door;
rubble first and second floors have arcades of 3 round-arched
recesses with segmental-arched first-floor and round-arched
second-floor windows with glazing bars; a segmental-arched
panel to the centre has first- and second-floor windows
separated by a panel inscribed WOOL HALL. The right elevation
to Thomas Lane is similarly articulated.
INTERIOR: a frame of cast-iron posts to heavy timber beams,
with a Pennant-flagged ground-floor, and a Pennant staircase
up front right. '...the first quasi-industrial building in
Bristol to attempt a real architectural facade.' (Gomme).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-).