Number 8 and Attached Area Railings and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. House. 8 related planning applications.

Number 8 and Attached Area Railings and Gates

WRENN ID
errant-slate-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
House
Address
Number 8 and Attached Area Railings and Gates, Sion Hill, BS8 4BA
OS grid reference
ST 566 730
Coordinates
51.45484, -2.6252
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 8 is an attached house, now functioning as a pair, built in the early 19th century. It features a rendered exterior with limestone dressings, a brick party wall, and ridge stacks, although the roof is not visible. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in a late Georgian style, comprising three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a four-window range.

The front is nearly symmetrical, with a two-window centre that projects slightly forward. It has outer pilaster strips, a cornice, and a parapet. To the right, there is a large 19th-century tripartite entrance with pilasters supporting an entablature and a dentil cornice. This entrance includes panelled mullions, margin panes, and overlights, along with a half-height bowed Tuscan portico and a six-panel door. The left side features a plain late 19th-century doorway with a six-panel door.

The central ground- and first-floor windows are sashes with margin panes, while the outer first-floor windows are French windows with margin panes. The second-floor windows are six-over-six pane sashes. There are two basement windows and a small doorway on the right. A mid-19th-century full-width first-floor tented timber balcony is supported by cast-iron brackets and features railings with lattice sections, panels with anthemia in arched tops, and cobweb spandrels.

Additionally, there are attached wrought-iron railings and gates for the front basement area, adorned with urn finials. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Number 8 and Attached Area Railings and Gates 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 8 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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