Number 17 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Gates and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Attached house. 12 related planning applications.
Number 17 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Gates and Piers
- WRENN ID
- hollow-gateway-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- Attached house
- Address
- Number 17 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Gates and Piers, Sion Hill, BS8 4AZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 566 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45528, -2.62457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 17 is a house dating from around 1780, built in the mid-Georgian style. It is rendered with limestone dressings, has party wall stacks, and a hidden roof. The house follows a double-depth plan and is arranged over three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a three-window front. The symmetrical facade has pilaster strips that lead to a moulded cornice and parapet. The semicircular-arched doorway is framed by attached Doric columns, an entablature with triglyphs, an open modillion pediment, and a blocked fanlight above a six-panel door, the upper four panels being raised with cut-out corners. The windows are mostly 8/8-pane sashes, with 4/8-pane windows on the second floor. A semicircular-arched stair window with a timber lining is centrally placed on the second floor. The rear elevation features a full-height canted bay on the left.
Inside, a full-height central stairwell leads to an open dogleg staircase with stick balusters, column newels, a ramped and wreathed rail, and curved brackets. The stairwell is separated from the central hall by an elliptical arch. The interior features reeded architraves with corner roundels to six-panel doors, reeded marble fire surrounds with corner roundels, panelled shutters, and cornices decorated with vine leaves. There are elliptical-arched recesses in the principal rooms.
Attached to the front of the house are wrought-iron area gates and railings with urn finials, capped corner piers, and steps leading down to the basement entrance. The property forms part of a terrace alongside numbers 16 to 19 and is connected by a continuous cornice.
Local climate
Number 17 and Attached Basement Area Railings, Gates and Piers 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 — 11 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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