NUMBERS 20 TO 24 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 20 TO 24 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-24, ORCHARD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1207796
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 20 TO 24 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 20 TO 24 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-24, ORCHARD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1207796
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 20 TO 24 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 20 TO 24 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-24, ORCHARD STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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 20 TO 24 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 20-24, 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 58471 72946

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NW ORCHARD STREET 901-1/15/156 (South East side) 08/01/59 Nos.20-24 (Consecutive) and attached front area railings (Formerly Listed as: ORCHARD STREET (South side) Nos.20-24 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Terrace of 5 houses, now offices. 1722. Stucco with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. Articulated by rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping. Outer pairs have outer doorways, No.23 on the left: timber canopies on thin brackets, moulded frames and 6-panel doors with glazed top panels. Recessed windows with exposed frames and 6/6-pane sashes; 2 tall dormers with 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR: panelled hall with elliptical arch to fully-panelled ground-floor rooms; dogleg winder stair has column-on-vase balusters, square newels and a moulded rail; 6-panel doors and shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area wrought-iron railings and gates with urn finials. Probably built by John Price for speculative letting (Ison). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 100; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 154).

Listing NGR: ST5847172946

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Legacy System number:: 380080
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 100
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 154

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