Numbers 15 to 19 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. A Georgian Terrace of houses. 3 related planning applications.

Numbers 15 to 19 and Attached Front Area Railings

WRENN ID
second-transept-mist
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
Terrace of houses
Address
Numbers 15 to 19 and Attached Front Area Railings, Orchard Street, BS1 5DX
OS grid reference
ST 584 729
Coordinates
51.45426, -2.59926
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A terrace of five houses, numbered 15 to 19, now used as offices, was built in 1721 by John Price. The design is Early Georgian in style, with brick construction, limestone dressings, a brick party wall stack, and a pantile mansard roof. The buildings are arranged with a double-depth plan over three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a 3-window range to each house except for number 19, which has a 4-window range. The facade is articulated by rusticated pilaster strips that extend over moulded strings and a parapet coping. Doorways are irregularly spaced—number 15 between the right-hand windows, number 16 to the right, number 17 to the left with a narrow hall window, number 18 to the right, and number 19 between the left-hand windows. Each doorway features fluted pilasters supporting scrolled stone brackets to pediments; a broken segmental pediment adorns number 19. The door frames have rectangular overlights and glazing bars, with wrought-iron lamp holders at numbers 15 and 18. Eight-panel doors are present. The windows are 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames, with number 15 having keyed stone architraves and 3/6-pane sashes to the second floor. Low, segmental-arched basement hatches are also present. There are three dormers on each building.

The interior features entrance halls with panelled partitions, fully-panelled rooms with cornices. Hall arches incorporate fluted pilasters, with open dogleg stairs providing access to the rear from the half-landings. The stair has column-on-vase balusters, moulded ramped handrails, and wainscot. Six-panel doors, panelled shutters, and carved fire surrounds are also present. Number 19 contains a good open-well stair, and number 15 has notable Rococo plasterwork ceilings, likely by Joseph Thomas, covering the walls and soffits of the stair.

Attached to the front of the terrace are wrought-iron area railings and gates with urn finials. The houses were constructed to varying plans for different clients, but maintain common front dimensions.

Local climate

Numbers 15 to 19 and Attached Front Area Railings 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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  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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