Number 25 And Attached Front Area Railings And Rear Garden Walls

House, dating from 1788 to 1791, designed by William Paty. It is now used as an office building. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a basement of coursed Pennant rubble and brick gable stacks topped with a slate double-pile roof. It follows a double-depth plan and is in a mid-Georgian style. The house has three main floors, an attic, a basement, and a sub-basement, with a five-window front.

The symmetrical front features a rusticated ground floor up to a plat band, a cornice, and a parapet. The central doorway has pilasters supporting a Doric entablature and a pediment, above a semicircular arch fitted with a metal fanlight, leading to a six-panel door. The ground-floor windows have large key stones and are fitted with six-over-six pane sash windows; the upper floor windows are smaller. The rear elevation is similar. The basement is of rubble construction with segmental-arched Pennant lintels. The brick stacks are divided by a semicircular arch.

The interior includes a lobby with a semicircular-arched doorway and fanlight, leading to an open dogleg staircase with a curtail, column-on-vase balusters, and a wreathed and ramped banded handrail. It also features six-panel doors and panelled shutters.

Attached to the front of the property are cast-iron area railings and gates, curved to meet the door, with an overthrow arch. There are also attached rear garden walls constructed of rubble. The house is one of a group in Great George Street which share similar fronts but have markedly different interior layouts, reflecting the needs of different clients, and is noted as a significant example of Bristol’s Georgian architecture.