Number 12 And Front Area Railings

BRISTOL

901-1/15/151 ORCHARD STREET 08-JAN-59 (Northwest side) 12 NUMBER 12 AND FRONT AREA RAILINGS (Formerly listed as: ORCHARD STREET 10-14)

GV II* Attached house. 1717-22. Render over brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded parapet coping. A right-hand doorway has timber brackets to a pediment, and a semicircular-arched doorway with fanlight and 6-panel door. A C19 tripartite ground-floor window, with a narrow 4/4-pane sash to right of the doorway, and a large first-floor C19 tripartite window with acanthus consoles to a cornice and medallions beneath; 6/6-pane sashes, 3 on the second floor; 2 hipped dormers. INTERIOR: entrance stair hall with a dogleg stair with turned balusters, curtail and a ramped, moulded rail, the stair dividing at the half-landing with a short flight to the rear service block; fully-panelled ground-floor rooms with eared fire surrounds, and a good brown marble mid C19 fire surround to the front on the first floor; panelled shutters and 4-panel doors; on the first-floor landing is a piece of wainscot with a painted pastoral scene. Brick tunnel vaulted cellars. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front area railings with finials. Laid out by the Corporation as a terrace with Nos 10-13, though built by separate developers, and forming a group with the rest of Orchard and Unity Streets (qv). (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 101; Mowl T: To Build the Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 15).