Numbers 13 And 14 And Attached Front Area Railings

Numbers 13 and 14 are a pair of attached houses located on Orchard Street in Bristol, built between 1717 and 1722. They are constructed from painted brick with limestone dressings, featuring brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Designed in the early Georgian style, the houses are three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and have a three-window range.

The exterior showcases rusticated pilaster strips that run through moulded string courses to each floor, topped with a moulded parapet coping. They are a handed pair, each with outer doorways: Number 13 features a 19th-century ashlar surround with panelled jambs, entablature blocks, a pediment, a semicircular-arched doorway with a fanlight, and a six-panel door. Number 14 has a bracketed timber semicircular-arched canopy, a three-pane overlight, and a six-panel door. The windows have flat brick arches, with ashlar keys on Number 13 and brick on Number 14, and contain 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, along with two hipped dormers.

Inside, the entrance stair halls have open dogleg stairs with column-on-vase balusters, curtails, and ramped, moulded rails. The stair divides at the half-landing with a short flight leading to the rear service block. The ground-floor rooms are fully panelled and feature eared fire surrounds, with flanking niches at the rear of Number 14. Number 13 has a late 18th-century hob grate on the first floor, along with panelled shutters and four-panel doors. The cellars are brick tunnel vaulted.

Additionally, the houses are complemented by attached wrought-iron front area railings with finials. Originally laid out by the Corporation as a terrace with Numbers 10-12, these houses were built by separate developers and form a group with the rest of Orchard and Unity Streets.