Purchase of Bristol’s iconic Canons House paves way for major redevelopment

Kinrise and Mactaggart Family & Partners (MF&P) have announced the acquisition of Canons House in Bristol, the iconic Grade II listed office building of 200,000 sq ft in the Canon’s Marsh area of the city centre.

It is one of the most recognisable buildings in the city, made up of a circular office building around a landscaped courtyard and the large crescent office building overlooking Lloyds Amphitheatre.

The team will start work in 2025 to create Bristol’s largest and most sustainable Grade A office building with restaurants and events spaces for cultural and community programming.

Samuel Lawson Johnston, Kinrise co-founder, said: “Canons House has the scale and architectural prominence to be Bristol’s leading office building. We look forward to it being full of thriving people, growing companies, life and soul. It has also been a long-standing ambition for Kinrise and MF&P to work together and this is the perfect project to bring out the best of our complimentary skills.”

William Laxton, CEO of MF&P, said: “We are very pleased to have completed this acquisition and with such a compatible partner in Kinrise, too. Our experience of our existing portfolio is that the occupier market is extremely strong for the right assets in the right location. We are in no doubt that this development will prove to be best-in-class and that it will serve as a base for the region’s top office occupiers.”