IHBC’s ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Bristol Harbourside landmark Canons House (Arup, 1988-91) gets GII listing

Canons House, a landmark building on Bristol Harbourside has been awarded Grade II (GII) listed status, and having been built as a regional headquarters for Lloyds Bank between 1988 and 1991, it is now being sold off later this year.

image: Historic England

… the building played an ‘important role’ in the post-industrial regeneration of Bristol’s docks…

The Bristol Post writes:

A landmark building on Bristol Harbourside has been awarded Grade II listed status. Canons House, which joins more than 200 listed structures in the city, was handed the recognition by the Government on the advice of Historic England.

The news comes six months after Lloyds Bank announced it was putting the property up for sale…

In October, Lloyds said it was discussing the sale of Canons House with Bristol City Council to see if there were occupiers, developers or investors who would be interested in investing in the redevelopment of the building…

Canons House was built as a regional headquarters for Lloyds Bank between 1988 and 1991 after the bank took the decision to relocate its retail banking functions to a single site outside of London in 1986. Arup Associates were commissioned as architects.

According to Historic England, the building played an “important role” in the post-industrial regeneration of Bristol’s docks as a thriving recreation and cultural centre. Designed to have a civic presence and with an integrated amphitheatre, it forms one of Bristol’s key public assembly spaces, and is a monumental and distinctive harbourside landmark.

Historic England has said the building is an “accomplished example” of post-modern architecture, a style widespread between about 1975 and 1990. Postmodernist buildings are characterised by their engagement with context and setting, reference to older architectural traditions and use of symbolism, the heritage body said…

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