Number 2 and Attached Wall and Front Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House, flats.
Number 2 and Attached Wall and Front Area Railings
- WRENN ID
- brooding-moulding-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1977
- Type
- House, flats
- Address
- Number 2 and Attached Wall and Front Area Railings, Dighton Street
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 736
- Coordinates
- 51.46066, -2.5935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 2 is a house, now divided into flats, built in the late 18th century for Joseph Harford. It features limestone ashlar and squared, coursed Pennant rubble, with rendered gable stacks and a slate mansard roof. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in a mid-Georgian style, standing three storeys high with an attic and basement, and a nine-window range. It is situated on a slope, with the front set back from the basement. The design is symmetrical, featuring a five-window centre and three-window wings that are set back, with the left wing being a single storey.
The rusticated ground floor has incised voussoirs and a plat band, with pilasters extending to a cornice and parapet, which is raised at the centre to the height of the pediment, adorned with ball finials. A notable central doorcase includes blocked pilasters, an open pediment with stepped keys, and an eight-panel door, located in the pedimented three-window section. The ground floor has 6/6-pane horned sashes, while the upper floors feature sashes with margin bars and smaller C20 plate-glass sashes on the second floor, along with two dormers. The sides of the building are rendered, and the left wing has a C20 second floor, which includes two wide segmental arches at basement height. The projecting basement has corner piers and two doorways with rusticated surrounds, the central one beneath a ramped coping.
Additionally, there is an attached brick wall and railings at the front of the basement area. This house is one of several designed in the style of Clifton Hill House from 1750 and is likely attributed to architect Thomas Paty.
Local climate
Number 2 and Attached Wall and Front 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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