NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS

NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 10, GUINEA STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279683
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 10, GUINEA STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1279683
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 10, GUINEA 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 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 10, 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:: ST5894772188

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872 GUINEA STREET, Redcliff 901-1/42/1674 (South side) 08/01/59 No.10 and attached front area railings (Formerly Listed as: GUINEA STREET (South side) No.10)

GV II*

Attached house. Dated 1718. For Captain Edmond Saunders. Brick with limestone dressings and a pantile gabled roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. Brick pilasters, moulded strings at each floor, and a moulded coping to a Dutch gable with an acorn finial. Right-hand doorway has scrolled timber brackets to a deep pediment, a rectangular doorframe beneath a semicircular overlight with curly top and plate glass, and a mid C18 door with 6 Gothick panels. Rubbed-brick flat arches, with wavy arrisses on the second floor, have keys carrying various motifs including grotesque faces, fish, birds, fruit and a harp, to 6/6-pane sashes; a smaller, possibly later sash in the gable. Rear ground-floor 9/9-pane sash with thick glazing bars. INTERIOR: remarkably complete, includes a flagged and fully-panelled through passage divided by a semicircular arch with Greek key soffit; a central framed newel stair with uncut string, slim turned balusters, and straight toadback rails to square newels; front ground-floor room has modillion cornice, a fine eared fireplace with rocaille foliate decoration (see No.18 Guinea Street, qv), and fielded, panelled shutters and wainscot; rear ground-floor room is fully panelled, with a very fine rocaille fireplace and overmantel flanked by slender columns with acanthus capitals, and a cupboard to the side with fluted cornice; fine moulded architraves to 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: deep front area with steps down to the basement has attached wrought-iron railings and capped piers. Built for Captain Saunders, to whom the key motifs may relate, and originally one house with Nos 11 & 12 (qv). A fine and remarkably complete house. (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 156).

Listing NGR: ST5894772188

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Legacy System number:: 379672
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 156

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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.