Numbers 25 and 26 and Attached Front Area Railings and Lamp

NUMBERS 25 AND 26 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND LAMP, 25 AND 26, ORCHARD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1202406
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:
Numbers 25 and 26 and Attached Front Area Railings and Lamp
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 25 AND 26 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND LAMP, 25 AND 26, ORCHARD STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1202406
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Numbers 25 and 26 and Attached Front Area Railings and Lamp
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 25 AND 26 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND LAMP, 25 AND 26, ORCHARD 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 25 AND 26 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS AND LAMP, 25 AND 26, ORCHARD 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 58436 72927

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NW ORCHARD STREET 901-1/15/158 (South East side) 08/01/59 Nos.25 AND 26 and attached front area railings and lamp (Formerly Listed as: ORCHARD STREET (South side) Nos.25-29 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Pair of attached houses. c1720. Built by John Price. Brick with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Early Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys; 3-window range. Articulated by brick pilasters, moulded strings to each floor and coped parapet. Outer doorways between the end windows, have framed and panelled canopies on brackets, 10-panel door to No.26, 6-panel door to No.25. Windows with brick flat arches with brick keys, to 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames. Slate-hung dormers, full-width to No.25. INTERIOR not inspected, but noted as having good dogleg stairs with column-on-vase balusters, panelled rooms, cornices and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area railings, and square gas wall lamp at the left-hand corner. Part of a good early Georgian terrace with the slightly later Nos 27-29 (qv). The street was laid out in 1716. Varying plans for different clients, and common elevations. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 42; Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 100; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 254).

Listing NGR: ST5844172927

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380082
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Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A, Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, (), 42
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 100
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 254

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Numbers 25 and 26 and Attached Front Area Railings and Lamp

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