Description

BRISTOL

ST5872 GUINEA STREET, Redcliff
901-1/42/1675 (South side)
08/01/59 Nos.11 AND 12
and attached front area railings

GV II

Pair of attached houses. 1718. For Captain Edmond Saunders.
Brick with limestone dressings and a pantile roof, hipped to
the front. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of 2
storeys, basement and attic; 2-window range. Brick pilasters,
moulded strings at each floor and a moulded coping. C19 plain
left-hand doorways have rectangular overlights and C20
six-panel doors. Flat, rubbed brick arches have wavy arrisses
on the second floor, and keys carrying various motifs
including grotesque faces, fish, birds, fruit and a harp, to
6/9-pane ground-floor and 6/6-pane first-floor sashes; 1
hipped dormer each. INTERIOR completely rebuilt c1970.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: deep front area with steps down to the
basement has attached wrought-iron railings. Built for Captain
Saunders, to whom the key motifs may relate, and originally
one house with No.10 (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 103; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 156).

Listing NGR: ST5894172189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497896

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)