Numbers 29 to 40 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Terrace, Balustrade, and Wall to Number 40 is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Residential. 15 related planning applications.

Numbers 29 to 40 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Terrace, Balustrade, and Wall to Number 40

WRENN ID
grey-cobble-cobweb
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
Residential
Address
Numbers 29 to 40 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Terrace, Balustrade, and Wall to Number 40, Cornwallis Crescent, BS8 4PH
OS grid reference
ST 570 728
Coordinates
51.45267, -2.61884
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 29 to 40 form a terrace of eleven late Georgian houses begun in 1791, possibly designed by William Paty, with work initially halted in 1793 and completed in 1827. The houses are built of limestone ashlar to the front, with brick and render to the rear. They have slate and pantile mansard half hipped roofs and a double-depth plan.

Each house has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, arranged in a three-window range. The terrace has a concave form, with an ashlar front marked by giant pilasters extending through a plat band to a modillion cornice and parapet. The ground floor is banded. Number 40 projects forward. The windows are mostly 6/9-pane sash windows on the first floor, and 6/6-pane sashes elsewhere, with dormers above.

A projecting, vaulted basement forms a full-width terrace with a rusticated front featuring large semicircular arches and a balustrade. Some tented first-floor balconies have oval wrought-iron railings. The rear elevations have doorways with Ionic pilasters, entablatures, cornices, semicircular arches with fanlights, and six-panel doors with flush lower panels and upper raised panels with cut-out corners; the entrance to number 38 is blocked. Two-storey porches are present at numbers 31 and 32, and numbers 33 to 39, bowed with rusticated ground floors at numbers 34 and 39. Number 40 has a larger, projecting doorway with a central semicircular-arched stair window with triple 2/6/6-pane sashes, and a two-storey left-hand extension with a modillion cornice.

The interior features an entrance hall, a dogleg staircase with stick balusters, column newels, a ramped rail, and a curtail. Ground-floor rooms are interconnected by folding doors, and have full width fronts, reeded architraves to six-panel doors and panelled shutters.

Attached to the rear is a wrought-iron railing enclosing a basement area, with urn finials and overthrow arches to numbers 30 and 40. A roughly 50-metre long rubble wall extends from number 40, adjacent to Clifton Vale. The terrace was originally planned as part of a longer development including numbers 1 to 23, and a right of way was created between the two sections during a period when the development was paused.

Local climate

Numbers 29 to 40 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Terrace, Balustrade, and Wall to Number 40 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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