Number 27 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. A Georgian House.

Number 27 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
Number 27 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls, Great George Street
OS grid reference
ST 580 728
Coordinates
51.45328, -2.60447
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 27 is a house, now used as an office, built between 1788 and 1791 by William Paty. It features a limestone ashlar facade, a coursed Pennant rubble basement, brick gable stacks, and a slate double-pile roof. The building is designed in a mid-Georgian style and has three storeys, an attic, a basement, and a sub-basement, with a symmetrical front that includes a rusticated ground floor, a plat band, a cornice, and a parapet. The central doorway is adorned with pilasters supporting a Doric entablature and a pediment, featuring a semicircular arch with a metal fanlight and a six-panel door. The ground-floor windows have large keys and are fitted with 6/6-pane sashes, which are smaller on the second floor. The rear elevation is similar to the front. The rubble basement has segmental-arched Pennant lintels, and there are tall stacks separated by a semicircular arch. The roof features three hipped dormers.

To the left, there is a single-storey block from the 19th century with an ashlar tripartite window and a roof lantern. The interior has been extensively modernised, with a lobby that includes an elliptical arch leading to a left-hand open dogleg stair, which has a curtail, column-on-vase balusters, and a wreathed and ramped banded rail. There are also six-panel doors and panelled shutters. The property includes attached cast-iron front area railings and gates that curve up to the door, as well as attached rear rubble garden walls. This house is one of several on the street that have matching fronts but different plans for various clients.

Local climate

Number 27 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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