Number 12 And Front Area Railings

Number 12 is an attached house located on Orchard Street in Bristol, built between 1717 and 1722. It features a rendered brick exterior with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks, and a pantile roof. The house is designed in an early Georgian style with three storeys, an attic, and a basement, arranged in a three-window range. The façade includes rusticated pilaster strips and a moulded parapet coping.

The right-hand doorway is adorned with timber brackets supporting a pediment and features a semicircular-arched design with a fanlight above a six-panel door. The ground floor has a 19th-century tripartite window, with a narrow four-over-four pane sash to the right of the doorway. The first floor boasts a large 19th-century tripartite window with acanthus consoles and medallions beneath, while the second floor has three six-over-six pane sashes and two hipped dormers.

Inside, the entrance stair hall contains a dogleg stair with turned balusters, a curtail, and a ramped, moulded rail. The stair divides at the half-landing, leading to a short flight to the rear service block. The ground-floor rooms are fully panelled and feature eared fire surrounds, including a notable brown marble mid-19th-century fire surround in the front room on the first floor. There are also panelled shutters and four-panel doors, with a piece of wainscot featuring a painted pastoral scene on the first-floor landing. The property has brick tunnel vaulted cellars.

The house is complemented by attached wrought-iron front area railings with finials. It was laid out by the Corporation as part of a terrace with Nos 10-13, although it was built by separate developers. Number 12 forms a group with the other buildings along Orchard and Unity Streets.