Marlborough House and Attached Rubble Wall and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1973. House.
Marlborough House and Attached Rubble Wall and Railings
- WRENN ID
- burning-newel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Marlborough House and Attached Rubble Wall and Railings, 30, Marlborough Hill
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 736
- Coordinates
- 51.46072, -2.59679
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marlborough House, built around 1740, is a house located on Marlborough Hill in Kingsdown, Bristol. It features a combination of limestone ashlar and render, topped with a slate hipped roof. The house has a double-depth plan with a projecting wing on the left side and is designed in the mid-Georgian style. It stands three storeys high with a basement and has a symmetrical front with five windows. The façade is accentuated by giant pilasters leading to a cornice, with an attic that extends behind the former parapet.
There are swept steps leading up to a raised doorway, which is framed by pilasters, triglyphs, and a pediment. The semicircular-arched doorway includes a plate-glass fanlight and a six-panel door. The windows consist of six-over-six pane sashes and three-over-six pane sashes on the top floor. The street front has two storeys with a four-window range and features a right-hand door flanked by brick piers and stone blocks, topped with a pediment.
Inside, the house was remodelled in 1991, showcasing a central hall that leads to a large open-well staircase with column-on-vase newels. There is also a second-floor rear open-well staircase with stick balusters and a ramped rail, along with cornices and six-panel doors.
Additional features include 19th-century cast-iron railings leading up to the steps and a wrought-iron lamp basket above the door. An attached rubble wall runs beside the road to the south.
Local climate
Marlborough House and Attached Rubble Wall and 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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