Description

BRISTOL

ST5873SE ST STEPHEN'S STREET, Centre
901-1/11/670 (East side)
04/03/77 Nos.9 AND 11
Concorde House including railings
and lamps
(Formerly Listed as:
ST STEPHEN'S STREET
(East side)
Nos.9 AND 11)

GV II

Office. Dated 1875. By JH Hirst. Grey and red granite,
limestone ashlar, ashlar gable stacks, roof not visible.
Double-depth plan. Eclectic Baroque and Venetian Gothic
Revival style.
2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. An elaborate symmetrical
front has 2-storey semicircular arches with grey granite
plinth and red granite giant Composite columns, square
responds, to entablature blocks beneath arches with moulded
architraves and panelled keys with guilloche, beneath an
entablature with panelled blocks above the columns, and
modillion cornice; walls behind have alternate vermiculated
bands. Tall attic storey has banded pilasters with crocketed
capitals to a heavy bracketed cornice, a central pediment with
balustrade each side, raised above, with 4 flaming urns.
Segmental-arched ground-floor windows with keys and carved
spandrels, and deep bowed sill above, acroteria to the arches
and keys above; right-hand doorway has pilaster jambs to a
lintel and 6-panel door, steps up to a left-of-centre doorway.
2nd-floor keyed semicircular-arched windows with granite
shafts to paired semicircular-arched windows and a round
window above. A cartouche to the tympanum, and an acroterion
above the pediment. Shouldered basement windows.
INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with parallel
bars to ground-floor windows, curved railings and 2 lamp
standards with globe lamps to the middle doorway.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 352; City of Bristol: City Engineer's
Building Grant Plans: Bristol Record Office: 1851-: FOL 114).

Listing NGR: ST5870673025

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502866

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)