Harley Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens Penrose Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. House. 3 related planning applications.
Harley Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens Penrose Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens
- WRENN ID
- tangled-thatch-tallow
- 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
- Harley Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens Penrose Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens, Clifton Down, BS8 3BP
- OS grid reference
- ST 569 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45789, -2.62095
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harley Cottage and Penrose Cottage are a pair of attached houses built around 1780. They feature a rendered exterior with limestone dressings, brick gables, lateral stacks, and a slate roof. The houses are designed in a mid-Georgian style with a double-depth plan, each having three storeys and an attic, and a two-window range. They are linked by a continuous moulded parapet coping.
Harley Cottage has a symmetrical façade with a bracketed canopy over a six-panel door, horned sash windows with margin panes on the ground and first floors, and 2/2-pane sashes on the second floor, all in exposed frames. The roof is not visible from the front but is slate at the rear. Penrose Cottage is narrower, featuring a right-hand doorway with a small canopy and a six-panel door, 2/2-pane sashes on the ground and second floors, and plate-glass sashes on the first floor, also in exposed frames. It has a steep roof with a tall left-hand gable and rear stacks, along with a rear service block topped with a pyramidal pantile roof.
The properties are complemented by attached cast-iron front garden railings and gates with urn finials, as well as gate piers with domed caps. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Harley Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens Penrose Cottage and Attached Railings and Piers to Front Gardens 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 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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