Numbers 11 and 12 and Attached Front Area Railings
NUMBERS 11 AND 12 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 11 AND 12, GUINEA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202256
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 11 and 12 and Attached Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 11 AND 12 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 11 AND 12, GUINEA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202256
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 11 and 12 and Attached Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 11 AND 12 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 11 AND 12, GUINEA STREET
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 11 AND 12 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 11 AND 12, GUINEA 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 58941 72189
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872 GUINEA STREET, Redcliff 901-1/42/1675 (South side) 08/01/59 Nos.11 AND 12 and attached front area railings
GV II
Pair of attached houses. 1718. For Captain Edmond Saunders. Brick with limestone dressings and a pantile roof, hipped to the front. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of 2 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. Brick pilasters, moulded strings at each floor and a moulded coping. C19 plain left-hand doorways have rectangular overlights and C20 six-panel doors. Flat, rubbed brick arches have wavy arrisses on the second floor, and keys carrying various motifs including grotesque faces, fish, birds, fruit and a harp, to 6/9-pane ground-floor and 6/6-pane first-floor sashes; 1 hipped dormer each. INTERIOR completely rebuilt c1970. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: deep front area with steps down to the basement has attached wrought-iron railings. Built for Captain Saunders, to whom the key motifs may relate, and originally one house with No.10 (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 103; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 156).
Listing NGR: ST5894172189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379673
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 103
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 156
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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