Number 15 and Attached Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
Number 15 and Attached Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- rooted-attic-khaki
- 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
- Address
- Number 15 and Attached Front Railings, Somerset Street, BS2 8NB
- OS grid reference
- ST 588 738
- Coordinates
- 51.4624, -2.5944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 15 is an attached house located on Somerset Street in Kingsdown, Bristol, dated 1768 by its owner. The building features a rendered exterior with limestone dressings and has a double-depth plan in the late Georgian style. It stands three storeys high with a basement and has a two-window range. The moulded parapet coping adds to its architectural detail. The right-hand door is adorned with thin consoles supporting a timber pediment that has a dentil cornice, a rectangular overlight, and a six-panel door. The ground floor has a wide sash window with margin bars, while the first-floor sashes include 6/6-panes on the left and 4/4-panes on the right. The second floor features sashes with 3/6-panes on the left and 2/4-panes on the right.
Inside, the hall is divided by pilasters leading to a semicircular arch. There is a central lateral dogleg stair with a toadback, a ramped rail, column balusters and newels, and a modillion cornice. The rear bay is framed by moulded panels, and there are two-panel shutters and six-panel doors. The property also includes attached front area railings.
Local climate
Number 15 and Attached Front 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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