Number 6 and 7 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls, Piers and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Office. 3 related planning applications.

Number 6 and 7 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls, Piers and Gates

WRENN ID
forbidden-sandstone-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
Office
Address
Number 6 and 7 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls, Piers and Gates, Litfield Place, BS8 3LX
OS grid reference
ST 566 733
Coordinates
51.45779, -2.62465
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A pair of attached houses, originally dating to around 1830, and likely designed by Charles Dyer. They have been converted to offices in the late 20th century. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with a party wall and lateral stacks, topped with a slate roof. They follow a double-depth plan and are in a Neoclassical style.

Each house is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a four-window front. The central four windows are stepped forward, with a banded ground floor and pilasters above, stepped at the corners and centre, featuring blind lattice sections over the windows. There is a cornice and parapet, with reduced sections in front of the attic dormers that have iron railings. The outer sections have rusticated ground floors, first-floor string courses and cornices, and cornices to the attic storeys. Entrances are framed by paired Tuscan columns supporting a cornice, with plate-glass overlights and two-leaf, six-panel doors. Mid-20th century single-storey additions are at each end, with thin cornices. The windows have architraves, with console pediments over the doorways. The ground floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes, while the upper floor outer windows were cut through the cornices and have 2/2-pane, horned sashes. A full-width stone balcony with lattice steel railings is at the first-floor level, matched by basket balconies on the second floor.

Inside, the entrance lobby features a rear, open-well staircase with cast-iron splat balusters, a curtail, foliate newel, and a wreathed rail. The basement stair has cast-iron stick balusters with beads. The doors have fluted architraves, and the plaster mouldings are in a Greek Revival style.

Attached to the property are cast-iron basement area railings, a front garden with rubble walls capped with rendered ashlar Pennant piers, spear-headed steel railings, and two-leaf gates. The houses are part of a notable group of villas extending west from Litfield Place, and include Camp House, also attributed to Dyer.

Local climate

Number 6 and 7 and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Garden Walls, Piers and Gates 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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