Phoenix House and Attached Railings and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. House. 5 related planning applications.
Phoenix House and Attached Railings and Piers
- WRENN ID
- twisted-hearth-magpie
- 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
- Address
- Phoenix House and Attached Railings and Piers, 51, Queen Square, BS1 4LJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 725
- Coordinates
- 51.4503, -2.5961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Phoenix House is an attached house dating to approximately 1833, possibly designed by Henry Rumley. It is constructed of limestone ashlar, with party wall stacks and a pantile roof. The building follows a double-depth plan and is executed in a Neoclassical style. It has three storeys, a basement and an attic, and is arranged with a three-window front. The symmetrical facade has a banded ground floor, first-floor panelled pilasters with anthemion capitals to the frieze, a cornice, and a parapet. The central bay projects forward, featuring a bowed open portico supported by Roman Doric columns leading to an entablature. A chamfered door surround frames a six-panel door, above which is a panel inscribed "PHOENIX HOUSE". The first floor has a pedimented lintel with acroteria and wreaths above the central window, and houses six-pane sash windows. A large carved Phoenix is positioned in the centre of the parapet.
The interior features a central hall with an elliptical arch leading to a lateral, open dogleg staircase. This staircase has turned balusters, a wreathed and ramped rail with a star inlaid within the wreath. Good marble fireplaces are present in the ground and first-floor rooms, along with a fire surround in the basement. Cornices are decorated with anthemia and guilloche motifs. Six-panel doors and panelled shutters are also original features.
Queen Square was developed between 1701 and 1727, and much of the west side was rebuilt after the Reform Bill riot of 1831. The property also includes attached front area railings with anthemia finials and piers.
Local climate
Phoenix House and Attached Railings and Piers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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