Numbers 11 and 12 and Attached Front Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. House. 2 related planning applications.

Numbers 11 and 12 and Attached Front Area Railings

WRENN ID
stark-passage-pigeon
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
Address
Numbers 11 and 12 and Attached Front Area Railings, Guinea Street, BS1 6SX
OS grid reference
ST 589 721
Coordinates
51.44719, -2.59221
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 11 and 12 are a pair of attached houses built in 1718 for Captain Edmond Saunders. They are constructed of brick with limestone dressings and feature a hipped pantile roof. The houses are designed in an early Georgian style with a double-depth plan, each having two storeys, a basement, and an attic, along with a two-window range.

Architectural details include brick pilasters, moulded strings at each floor, and a moulded coping. The left-hand doorways, which date from the 19th century, have plain designs with rectangular overlights and 20th-century six-panel doors. The second-floor windows are adorned with flat, rubbed brick arches that have wavy arrisses, and the keys above the windows display various motifs such as grotesque faces, fish, birds, fruit, and a harp. The ground-floor windows have 6/9-pane sashes, while the first-floor windows have 6/6-pane sashes, and there is one hipped dormer on each house.

The interior was completely rebuilt around 1970. A notable feature of the property is the deep front area, which has steps leading down to the basement and is enclosed by attached wrought-iron railings. These houses were originally one residence with Number 10, and the key motifs may relate to Captain Saunders.

Local climate

Numbers 11 and 12 and Attached Front Area Railings receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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