Numbers 13 and 14 and Attached Front Area Railings
NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 13 AND 14, ORCHARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207768
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 13 and 14 and Attached Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 13 AND 14, ORCHARD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207768
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 13 and 14 and Attached Front Area Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 13 AND 14, ORCHARD STREET
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.
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 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 13 AND 14, 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 58425 72949
Details
BRISTOL
901-1/15/152 ORCHARD STREET 08-JAN-59 (Northwest side) 13 AND 14 NUMBERS 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED FRONT A REA RAILINGS (Formerly listed as: ORCHARD STREET 10-14)
GV II* Pair of attached houses. 1717-22. Painted brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Rusticated pilaster strips through moulded string courses to each floor, to a moulded parapet coping. A handed pair with outer doorways, No.13 with a C19 ashlar surround with panelled jambs, entablature blocks and a pediment, a semicircular-arched doorway with fanlight and 6-panel door, No.14 with a bracketed timber semicircular-arched canopy, 3-pane overlight and 6-panel door. Flat brick arches, with ashlar keys to No.13, brick to No.14, to 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames; 2 hipped dormers.
INTERIOR: entrance stair halls with open dogleg stairs with column-on-vase balusters, curtails and ramped, moulded rails, 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, flanking niches to the rear of No.14, first-floor late C18 hob grate to No.13, panelled shutters and 4-panel doors. Brick tunnel vaulted cellars.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front area railings with finials. Laid out by the Corporation as a terrace with Nos 10-12, 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).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380076
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 15
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 101
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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