Number 30 and Piers and Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House.

Number 30 and Piers and Front Railings

WRENN ID
south-stone-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
House
Address
Number 30 and Piers and Front Railings, Victoria Square
OS grid reference
ST 573 730
Coordinates
51.45525, -2.61532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 30 is a house located in Victoria Square, Clifton, built around 1865, likely designed by Archibald Ponton. The building is constructed from limestone ashlar and features lateral and party wall stacks, topped with a pantile hipped roof. It has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Italianate style, consisting of three storeys and a basement, with a three-window range.

The façade has three ashlar faces, a first-floor moulded sill band, and stone cornices at the eaves. A single-storey full-width porch includes a side entrance and three windows, supported by pilasters with foliate capitals, moulded eaves, and a two-leaf door. The windows above feature jambs with foliate capitals and moulded stilted lintels with cornices, fitted with 2/2-pane sashes. The right return mirrors the front with a two-window range, including paired ground-floor and tripartite right-hand windows, while the left return has outer three-light bows. The stacks are adorned with cornices.

Inside, there is a rear open dogleg stair with barleysugar balusters, a curtail, and moulded soffits, along with six-panel doors, cornices, and shutters. The property is complemented by round, capped piers with cast-iron railings. It is believed to have been designed as the Parsonage to St James'.

Local climate

Number 30 and Piers and Front 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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