Numbers 27, 28 And 29 And Attached Front Area Railings And Gates

BRISTOL

ST5872NW ORCHARD STREET 901-1/15/159 (South East side) 08/01/59 Nos.27, 28 AND 29 and attached front area railings and gates (Formerly Listed as: ORCHARD STREET (South side) Nos.25-29 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Terrace of 3 houses. c1722. Brick with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Early Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys; 4-window range, No.27 of 3 windows. Rusticated pilaster strips, moulded strings to each floor and a coped parapet. Right-of-centre doorway to No.28 has fluted pilasters to a bracketed broken segmental pediment, wooden door frame and large 8-panel door; the outer houses have left-hand doorways with moulded brackets to canopies, rectangular overlights with lozenge glazing bars, and 6-panel doors. Windows with keyed brick flat arches, and grotesque carved keys to No.28 to 6/6-pane sashes, those to outer houses in flush frames, with 9/9-panes to first-floor of No.29 and second floor of No.27. Slate-hung segmental headed dormers. The right return has a limestone ashlar C20 shop front, rendered above with 2 first-floor sashes. INTERIOR: No.28 has a very fine, fully-panelled entrance stair hall, with an open-well stair to a balcony landing, with column-on-vase balusters, fluted Corinthian newels, and a ramped moulded rail, to a very wide curtail and wreathed rail with an inlaid star; foliate carved brackets, and moulded soffit; fluted Ionic pilasters to ground-floor semicircular-arched doorway and foliate key, and Corinthian pilasters to similar first-floor doorway; a dogleg rear service stair; panelled rooms, cornices and 6-panel doors. No.29 has a good dogleg stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area wrought-iron railings and gates, curved in towards doorways. Part of a good early Georgian terrace with the slightly earlier Nos 25 & 26 (qv). The street was laid out in 1716, and the houses built by speculative builders to varying plans for different clients, and common elevations. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 100; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 152).

Listing NGR: ST5843172917