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Number 12 and Front Area Railings

A Grade II* Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4539 / 51°27'13"N

Longitude: -2.5999 / 2°35'59"W

OS Eastings: 358415

OS Northings: 172935

OS Grid: ST584729

Mapcode National: GBR C6K.ZP

Mapcode Global: VH88M.WQFB

Plus Code: 9C3VFC32+G3

Entry Name: Number 12 and Front Area Railings

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279607

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380075

ID on this website: 101279607

Location: Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


BRISTOL

901-1/15/151 ORCHARD STREET
08-JAN-59 (Northwest side)
12
NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS

(Formerly listed as:
ORCHARD STREET
10-14)

GV II*
Attached house. 1717-22. Render over brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded parapet coping. A right-hand doorway has timber brackets to a pediment, and a semicircular-arched doorway with fanlight and 6-panel door. A C19 tripartite ground-floor window, with a narrow 4/4-pane sash to right of the doorway, and a large first-floor C19 tripartite window with acanthus consoles to a cornice and medallions beneath; 6/6-pane sashes, 3 on the second floor; 2 hipped dormers.
INTERIOR: entrance stair hall with a dogleg stair with turned balusters, curtail and a ramped, moulded rail, the stair dividing at the half-landing with a short flight to the rear service block; fully-panelled ground-floor rooms with eared fire surrounds, and a good brown marble mid C19 fire surround to the front on the first floor; panelled shutters and 4-panel doors; on the first-floor landing is a piece of wainscot with a painted pastoral scene. Brick tunnel vaulted cellars.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front area railings with finials. Laid out by the Corporation as a terrace with Nos 10-13, though built by separate developers, and forming a group with the rest of Orchard and Unity Streets (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 101; Mowl T: To Build the Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 15).

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