Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre 901-1/16/659 (North East side) 04/03/77 No.34 Stock Exchange Buildings

GV II

Offices. 1904. Signed by WR Saunders. Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 3 storey; 10-window range. 2 sections, canted in the middle, 1:3:1 to the left, and 1:2:2 to the right with a left-hand door, articulated by banded Ionic pilasters with swag, fluted ground-floor necks, foliate first-floor caps and blocked on the second floor; cornices set forward over the pilasters, with egg-and-dart on the ground floor and modillions and parapet on the second. Semicircular-arched ground-floor openings have Gibbs reveals, fluted necks, small rosettes above, Gibbs blocks to the arches and crossed branches in the spandrels; the doorway has matching paired attached columns set in the returns, with an iron fanlight and 14-panel door; plate-glass windows to weathered cills. First-floor openings have cills with panels below, eared and shouldered architraves with foliate panels set in the lintels, and semicircular-arched egg-and-dart hoods with carved panels. Second-floor windows have similar architraves, with raised blocks extending out to the pilasters. Horned plate-glass sashes. Outer pilasters to the right-hand section have paired consoles above. Rear elevations have moulded architraves to the windows. INTERIOR: hall and central lateral open dogleg stair with moulded square balusters and larger newels, and doorways with pulvinated friezes and dentil pediments, panelled reveals and 4-panel doors. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 60).

Listing NGR: ST5879772925

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