The Market House Tavern

THE MARKET HOUSE TAVERN, 13, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202550
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
List Entry Name:
The Market House Tavern
Statutory Address:
THE MARKET HOUSE TAVERN, 13, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202550
Date first listed:
04-Mar-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
The Market House Tavern
Statutory Address 1:
THE MARKET HOUSE TAVERN, 13, ST NICHOLAS STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE MARKET HOUSE TAVERN, 13, ST NICHOLAS STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
ST 58874 72921

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE ST NICHOLAS STREET, Centre 901-1/16/655 No.13 04/03/77 The Market House Tavern (Formerly Listed as: ST NICHOLAS STREET No.13 The Bunch of Grapes Public House)

GV II

Attached house, now public house. c1790. In style of Thomas Paty. Brick with limestone dressings, brick lateral stacks and hipped pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Late Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A corner site with splayed corner 1-window entrance, giant pilaster strips to cornice and parapet, and first-floor sill band. C19 timber public house front has pilasters to segmental-arched windows and consoles to the fascia and cornice, and double half-glazed doors. 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes. The right-hand 2-window return has 2 ground-floor windows with a blocked semicircular-arched doorway in between, and blocked left-hand windows above. INTERIOR: largely remodelled late C20. Forms a pair with No.17 (qv) opposite.

Listing NGR: ST5887472921

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
380479
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2025. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2025. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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