The Chestnuts is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. A Georgian House.

The Chestnuts

WRENN ID
former-gargoyle-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
The Chestnuts, Bonville Road
OS grid reference
ST 623 705
Coordinates
51.43259, -2.54322
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Chestnuts is a house built in 1668, with an early 19th-century front. It features a render over Pennant rubble construction, with gable-end brick stacks at both the front and rear cross wing, and a roof made of pantiles and slate. The building has an L-shaped plan that includes a through passage to the cross wing and an outshut at the back. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a three-window range.

The garden front displays two-light casement windows on the ground floor and 4/4-pane sash windows in flush boxes on the first floor. It is accentuated by a symmetrically-placed Greek Revival plain wooden porch with a six-panel door and has two flat-topped dormers. To the left, there is a 19th-century extension featuring a parapet and a gable-end stack, with a two-light sliding sash window and an attic dormer above the rear catslide. The right-hand rear elevation extends back under a parapeted valley, displaying a two-window range with 3/3-pane sashes on the left and 6/6 sashes on the right, both with thick glazing bars on the ground floor. The cross wing has a single-window range with a plain four-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor, containing iron-framed casements under a brick relieving arch, which has been replaced by coupled 6/6-pane sashes on the first floor. There is a door leading to a single-storey rear extension that is butted against the house.

Inside, the property features panelled shutters on all front windows, many original doors, and a lantern on the top floor.

Local climate

The Chestnuts receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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