Numbers 3 and 4 Apsley Villas and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Residential.

Numbers 3 and 4 Apsley Villas and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers

WRENN ID
odd-bracket-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Residential
Address
Numbers 3 and 4 Apsley Villas and Attached Front Garden Walls and Piers, Kingsdown Parade, BS6 5UQ
OS grid reference
ST 588 740
Coordinates
51.46355, -2.59343
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 3 and 4 Apsley Villas are an attached pair of houses built around 1850, located on Kingsdown Parade in Bristol. They are designed in the Italianate style and constructed from limestone ashlar. The buildings feature a double-depth plan and consist of three storeys, a basement, and an attic, with each house having a single-window range.

The entrance blocks are single-storey and set back to the sides, featuring pilasters that support a cornice and parapet. Each entrance has a rectangular overlight and two-leaf, two-panel doors. The main block of each house is separated by a shallow vertical recess, with banded rustication on the ground floor and pilasters with imposts leading to a wide, shallow, elliptical arch, topped with a cornice and parapet.

The windows include three semicircular-arched hornless sashes with horizontal bars. The ground floor has a shallow pediment above the windows, while the first floor features a cornice on moulded consoles and a plain surround on the second floor. The first-floor windows also have deep balconies supported by brackets. There are 20th-century dormers, with the one on No. 4 breaking the cornice.

The property includes attached front garden walls made of Pennant ashlar and capped piers. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Numbers 3 and 4 Apsley Villas and Attached Front Garden Walls 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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