Numbers 41 and 42 and Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 41 and 42 and Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- scarred-flue-elm
- 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
- Numbers 41 and 42 and Area Railings, Somerset Street, BS2 8LY
- OS grid reference
- ST 589 740
- Coordinates
- 51.46377, -2.5922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of houses, numbers 41 and 42, were built around 1850 by William Armstrong in the Late Georgian style. They are located on the south-east side of Somerset Street, Kingsdown, Bristol. The houses are stucco-faced with limestone dressings, and have a hidden roof. They are arranged over three storeys and have a two-window frontage. Pilasters articulate the facades to a stepped cornice and parapet. The left-hand doorways are semicircular-arched, with consoles supporting moulded canopies, and each has a six-panel door and a tear-drop fanlight. The windows are mostly 6/6-pane sash windows, some with original horn detailing; the second-floor windows are smaller and set within semicircular-arched recesses. The interior of the left-hand house features a dogleg winder staircase above the doorway, with turned balusters and newels. Attached spear-headed area railings are part of the original design.
Local climate
Numbers 41 and 42 and 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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