Numbers 20 and 21 and Attached Area Railings and Attached Rear Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House. 4 related planning applications.

Numbers 20 and 21 and Attached Area Railings and Attached Rear Garden Wall

WRENN ID
gentle-fireplace-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
House
Address
Numbers 20 and 21 and Attached Area Railings and Attached Rear Garden Wall, Somerset Street, BS2 8LZ
OS grid reference
ST 588 739
Coordinates
51.46269, -2.59384
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 20 and 21 Somerset Street are a pair of attached houses dating from around 1770. They are stucco and brick, with limestone dressings, limestone ashlar to the rear elevation, brick party wall stacks, and a pantile hipped double-pile roof. The houses have a double-depth plan and are in a mid-Georgian style. Each house is three storeys high, with a basement and attic, and is two windows wide. The ground floor is stuccoed, with brick above, and features pilasters to the cornice and parapet. Number 20 has a doorcase with consoles to an open pediment, a moulded keyed semicircular arch, a fanlight, and a six-panel door. Number 21 has a mid-19th century two-storey brick extension to the side. The ground floor of Number 20 incorporates an 8/8-pane sash window with flanking 6/6-pane sashes. Windows in Number 21's extension have flat surrounds and aprons, and upper-floor windows have cambered heads with five stepped voussoirs and 6/6-pane sashes. The extension has a three-window range, with plate-glass sashes divided by horizontal bars, sill bands, a first-floor lintel band, a frieze, and a cornice. The rear elevation of each house features a full-height canted bay, separated by a lead hopper and downpipe.

Inside Number 20, the hall is divided by fluted pilasters to a semicircular arch, and has wainscot and dado panelling. A central lateral dogleg staircase has a ramped rail, column-on-vase balusters, and column newels. The basement to the rear contains a built-in kitchen dresser. The house also features four-panelled shutters and six-panel doors. The attached features include front area railings to Number 21, wrought-iron railings with urn finials to the doorway of Number 20, and a brick garden wall to the rear.

Local climate

Numbers 20 and 21 and Attached Area Railings and Attached Rear Garden Wall 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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