Number 23 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.

Number 23 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls

WRENN ID
open-quartz-bramble
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
Number 23 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls, Great George Street, BS1 5QZ
OS grid reference
ST 581 728
Coordinates
51.45351, -2.60398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 23 is a house, now used as an office, built between 1788 and 1791 by William Paty. The building features limestone ashlar and coursed Pennant rubble in the basement, with brick gable stacks and a slate double-pile roof. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in the mid-Georgian style. The house stands three storeys tall, with an attic, basement, and sub-basement, and has a symmetrical front with a rusticated ground floor, a plat band, a cornice, and a parapet.

The central doorway is flanked by pilasters leading to a Doric entablature with a pediment, and it features a semicircular arch with a metal fanlight and a six-panel door. The ground-floor windows have large keys and are 6/6-pane sashes, while the second-floor windows are smaller. There are two hipped dormers, and the right-hand return has a semicircular-arched stair light on the first floor. The rear elevation is similar to the front. The rubble basement includes segmental-arched Pennant lintels, and there are tall stacks separated by a semicircular arch.

Inside, there is a semicircular-arched doorway with a fanlight leading to a central stair hall. The right-hand open dogleg stair features a curtail, column-on-vase balusters, and a wreathed and ramped banded rail. There are paired semicircular-arched doorways from the hall and landing, along with cornices adorned with festoons, fireplaces, six-panel doors, and panelled shutters.

The property also includes attached cast-iron front area railings and gates that curve up to the door, as well as rear brick garden walls. Number 23 is one of several houses on the street that have matching fronts but different plans for various clients.

Local climate

Number 23 and Attached Front Area Railings and Rear Garden Walls 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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