Numbers 11 And 12 And Attached Front Area Railings

BRISTOL

ST5872 GUINEA STREET, Redcliff 901-1/42/1675 (South side) 08/01/59 Nos.11 AND 12 and attached front area railings

GV II

Pair of attached houses. 1718. For Captain Edmond Saunders. Brick with limestone dressings and a pantile roof, hipped to the front. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of 2 storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. Brick pilasters, moulded strings at each floor and a moulded coping. C19 plain left-hand doorways have rectangular overlights and C20 six-panel doors. Flat, rubbed brick arches have wavy arrisses on the second floor, and keys carrying various motifs including grotesque faces, fish, birds, fruit and a harp, to 6/9-pane ground-floor and 6/6-pane first-floor sashes; 1 hipped dormer each. INTERIOR completely rebuilt c1970. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: deep front area with steps down to the basement has attached wrought-iron railings. Built for Captain Saunders, to whom the key motifs may relate, and originally one house with No.10 (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 103; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 156).

Listing NGR: ST5894172189