4 and 5, Charles Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. A Georgian House. 4 related planning applications.

4 and 5, Charles Street

WRENN ID
twelfth-flue-clover
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
Period
Georgian
Address
4 and 5, Charles Street, BS1 3NN
OS grid reference
ST 589 736
Coordinates
51.46041, -2.59243
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

4 and 5 Charles Street are a pair of attached houses built in the early 18th century. They are constructed of brick with limestone dressings, featuring a tall brick party wall stack and a hipped roof covered with pantiles. The houses have a double-depth plan and are designed in the early Georgian style, each standing three storeys high with a basement and a two-window range.

The exterior includes moulded coping and possibly originally had pilasters. The ground floor is raised on a projecting basement, with steps leading up to the outer doorways. These doorways are topped with deep timber canopies supported by horizontal brackets, and feature a segmental head with a three-pane overlight above a six-panel door, the top of which is glazed. The windows are set within segmental arches that have five stepped voussoirs and contain 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames. There are also two lead-clad hipped dormers, and the basement front wall is made of brick with two low doorways.

Inside No. 4, the entrance hall is divided by a semicircular arch and has a fully-panelled internal wall. The front room features a bolection-moulded fireplace and window seats. A central lateral dogleg winder stair has column balusters and newels, along with a ramped toadback rail. The interior also includes two panel shutters and four-panel doors.

Historically, this building was the home of Charles Wesley from 1749 to 1771.

Local climate

4 and 5, Charles Street 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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