Description

BRISTOL

ST5872 GUINEA STREET, Redcliff
901-1/42/1674 (South side)
08/01/59 No.10
and attached front area railings
(Formerly Listed as:
GUINEA STREET
(South side)
No.10)

GV II*

Attached house. Dated 1718. For Captain Edmond Saunders. Brick
with limestone dressings and a pantile gabled roof.
Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys, basement
and attic; 2-window range.
Brick pilasters, moulded strings at each floor, and a moulded
coping to a Dutch gable with an acorn finial. Right-hand
doorway has scrolled timber brackets to a deep pediment, a
rectangular doorframe beneath a semicircular overlight with
curly top and plate glass, and a mid C18 door with 6 Gothick
panels. Rubbed-brick flat arches, with wavy arrisses on the
second floor, have keys carrying various motifs including
grotesque faces, fish, birds, fruit and a harp, to 6/6-pane
sashes; a smaller, possibly later sash in the gable. Rear
ground-floor 9/9-pane sash with thick glazing bars.
INTERIOR: remarkably complete, includes a flagged and
fully-panelled through passage divided by a semicircular arch
with Greek key soffit; a central framed newel stair with uncut
string, slim turned balusters, and straight toadback rails to
square newels; front ground-floor room has modillion cornice,
a fine eared fireplace with rocaille foliate decoration (see
No.18 Guinea Street, qv), and fielded, panelled shutters and
wainscot; rear ground-floor room is fully panelled, with a
very fine rocaille fireplace and overmantel flanked by slender
columns with acanthus capitals, and a cupboard to the side
with fluted cornice; fine moulded architraves to 6-panel
doors.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: deep front area with steps down to the
basement has attached wrought-iron railings and capped piers.
Built for Captain Saunders, to whom the key motifs may relate,
and originally one house with Nos 11 & 12 (qv). A fine and
remarkably complete house.
(Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 156).

Listing NGR: ST5894772188

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553026

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)