Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NW ORCHARD STREET
901-1/15/159 (South East side)
08/01/59 Nos.27, 28 AND 29
and attached front area railings and
gates
(Formerly Listed as:
ORCHARD STREET
(South side)
Nos.25-29 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Terrace of 3 houses. c1722. Brick with limestone dressings,
party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Early Georgian style.
Each of 3 storeys; 4-window range, No.27 of 3 windows.
Rusticated pilaster strips, moulded strings to each floor and
a coped parapet. Right-of-centre doorway to No.28 has fluted
pilasters to a bracketed broken segmental pediment, wooden
door frame and large 8-panel door; the outer houses have
left-hand doorways with moulded brackets to canopies,
rectangular overlights with lozenge glazing bars, and 6-panel
doors. Windows with keyed brick flat arches, and grotesque
carved keys to No.28 to 6/6-pane sashes, those to outer houses
in flush frames, with 9/9-panes to first-floor of No.29 and
second floor of No.27. Slate-hung segmental headed dormers.
The right return has a limestone ashlar C20 shop front,
rendered above with 2 first-floor sashes.
INTERIOR: No.28 has a very fine, fully-panelled entrance stair
hall, with an open-well stair to a balcony landing, with
column-on-vase balusters, fluted Corinthian newels, and a
ramped moulded rail, to a very wide curtail and wreathed rail
with an inlaid star; foliate carved brackets, and moulded
soffit; fluted Ionic pilasters to ground-floor
semicircular-arched doorway and foliate key, and Corinthian
pilasters to similar first-floor doorway; a dogleg rear
service stair; panelled rooms, cornices and 6-panel doors.
No.29 has a good dogleg stair.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area wrought-iron railings
and gates, curved in towards doorways.
Part of a good early Georgian terrace with the slightly
earlier Nos 25 & 26 (qv). The street was laid out in 1716, and
the houses built by speculative builders to varying plans for
different clients, and common elevations.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 100; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 152).

Listing NGR: ST5843172917

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552603

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)