Norland House and Attached Walls and Piers is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House. 23 related planning applications.
Norland House and Attached Walls and Piers
- WRENN ID
- frozen-truss-starling
- 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
- Norland House and Attached Walls and Piers, Canynge Road, BS8 3LD
- OS grid reference
- ST 568 735
- Coordinates
- 51.45892, -2.62315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norland House is a house dating to around 1830, likely designed by Charles Dyer, with an extension of 1878 by JH Hirst. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with ridge stacks, and the roof is not visible. The building follows a double-depth plan and is in a Neoclassical style. It has two storeys and a basement, originally presenting a symmetrical seven-window façade, extended to the left with the addition of a porch in the re-entrant angle.
The earlier block has a banded basement and a plat band. Recessed end sections feature inset Greek Doric columns flanking the ground-floor windows. The central three windows include end panels with an incised Greek Key design, fluted pilasters, an entablature with a string of metopes, and a cornice. This banding and cornice extend along the recessed left-hand block. The porch has banded, recessed quadrant corners, Greek Doric columns, a cornice, and a parapet. The doorway has curved reveals, a plate-glass overlight, and a pair of six-panel doors. The taller central ground-floor windows are topped by eared architraves and Greek Key panels; the outer first-floor windows have semicircular-arched heads and palmette panels, all with aprons. There is a tented verandah with cast-iron railings to the right-hand ground-floor window, with a matching bay originally on the left, serving as an entrance.
The interior includes an 1878 lobby with steps, marble panels, and brown glazed panels depicting playing children. Attached to the left is a banded wall leading to two pairs of banded, capped piers with incised decoration, separated by a carriage gateway with large timber gates. A flagged road leads to former stables, which are not part of the listing. The architecture shares stylistic similarities with houses by Charles Dyer on Litfield Place.
Local climate
Norland House and Attached Walls and Piers 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 23 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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