Old Dock Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1972. Residential.

Old Dock Cottages

WRENN ID
dusk-merlon-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1972
Type
Residential
Address
Old Dock Cottages, 1-5
OS grid reference
ST 571 722
Coordinates
51.44769, -2.6183
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Dock Cottages is a terrace of five houses built in 1831 for the Bristol Docks Company. The cottages are constructed from coursed Pennant rubble and render, featuring party wall stacks and a slate roof. Each house has a single-depth plan and is a single storey with a three-window range. The symmetrical design includes a rubble plinth at the ground-floor cill, central doorways with pitched canopies supported by plain brackets, and segmental-arched doorways with splayed reveals leading to plain board doors. On either side of the doorways are segmental-arched ground-floor windows with splayed reveals, half dormers with casement windows, and a small central rectangular window with three panes. The single-storey rear has a full-width rubble block topped with a raking double Roman tile roof. The interior has not been inspected. This terrace is part of a significant surviving group of workers' housing.

Local climate

Old Dock Cottages receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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