Number 21 and Attached Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. House.

Number 21 and Attached Area Railings

WRENN ID
wild-hall-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Number 21 and Attached Area Railings, Cumberland Street
OS grid reference
ST 591 736
Coordinates
51.46028, -2.58929
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 21 is an attached house, now used as an office, dating from around 1770 and restored around 1989. It is constructed of brick with limestone dressings, features party wall stacks, and has a pantile roof. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in the Mid Georgian style, rising three storeys with a three-window range. The exterior includes rusticated quoin strips and a moulded parapet coping. The left-hand doorway is framed by an architrave with a large split key and brackets supporting a pediment, leading to a six-panel door. There is a canted timber bay with pilaster jambs and a cornice, and the windows have segmental-arched heads with five stepped voussoirs, containing 6/6-pane sashes. Inside, the property reportedly retains some original features, including panelling. The building also has attached spear-headed steel front area railings, which were completely rebuilt around 1980 to match the original design. Together with the neighbouring listed buildings, it contributes to a fairly complete 18th-century street.

Local climate

Number 21 and Attached 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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