NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS

NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 12, ORCHARD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279607
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 12, ORCHARD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279607
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 12, 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:: NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 12, 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 58415 72935

Details

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).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 380075
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 101
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 15

Legal

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