Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1994. Terrace of houses. 3 related planning applications.
Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- hidden-loft-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1994
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement Area Railings, Meridian Place, BS8 1JL
- OS grid reference
- ST 576 732
- Coordinates
- 51.45638, -2.61025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Mansions is a terrace of six houses built in 1835, possibly designed by Henry Goodridge. The houses are rendered with limestone dressings, have party wall stacks, and the roof is not visible. They are arranged with a double-depth plan and are in a Neoclassical style.
Each house has three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a single-window range on each front. The terrace has moulded coping and three-storey, windowless blocks projecting across the party wall between each pair of houses. These projecting blocks feature tetrastyle pilastrades with carved capitals on shallow corbels, a moulded frieze, and a pediment, with carved lion heads to the returns. Numbers 18 and 19 have had a third storey added in place of the original pediment.
The window openings have splayed surrounds and contain 6/6-pane sash windows. Two doorways are located in the middle of the terrace; the doorway to number 18 is blocked. Numbers 18 and 19 have had a fourth storey added.
The interior features an entrance lobby leading to a central passage and a top-lit, open dogleg staircase with turned balusters. Original features include modillion cornices and six-panel doors.
Attached to the front are cast-iron railings with a spear-headed design, enclosing the basement areas. The design of Park Mansions is striking and unusual. Henry Goodridge also designed the original Pro-Cathedral to the rear of Meridian Place.
Local climate
Park Mansions and Attached Front Basement 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 — 8 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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