Description

BRISTOL

ST5972 COUNTERSLIP STREET 901-1/42/87 (North side) 01/11/66 Former Tramway Generating Station (Formerly Listed as: COUNTERSLIP STREET Counterslip Warehouse (Kinloch & Co Ltd))

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Tramway generating station, now offices. 1899. By W Curtis Green. For Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company. Red brick with limestone ashlar dressings. Open plan. Baroque style. 5 storeys. Tall pedimented end has a large Venetian window with a splayed, coffered central arch and narrow flanking windows, below a moulded entablature forming an ashlar band round the building, with smaller windows above in sunken panels with architraves and floating cornices. Above is a second band with roundels to the base of 4 Ionic coulumns set flush with the wall with a balustrade between, in front of a large lunette window. Dentils, egg-and-dart and modillions to the pediment, which contains a narrow louvred light below a shell within a shallow niche with an arched cornice, and parapet above; this is balustraded along the splayed left-hand corner, which contains a small doorway. The side elevations are a 5-window range of sunken panels between brick pilasters with Ionic capitals, containing 3-light ground-floor windows below first-floor lunettes with Venetian windows to the third floor, and keyed oculi above. INTERIOR: inserted c1980 interior. Green designed the shells of a number of power stations including Hove and Chiswick, of which this is considered his finest. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 390; Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 99; Grey A S: Edwardian Architecture: London: 1985-: 199).

Listing NGR: ST5927872941

External Links

• Wikidata Q17553158

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