Grade 2 listed building I feel worthy of a cache.
Currently vacant, but part of the Finzels Reach development.
Heres some history:
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.
