Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NW ORCHARD STREET 901-1/15/153 (North West side) 08/01/58 Nos.15-19 (Consecutive) and attached front area railings

GV II*

Terrace of 5 houses, now offices. Dated on hopper 1721. Built by John Price. Plasterwork by Joseph Thomas. Brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile mansard roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range, No.19 has a 4-window range. Articulated by rusticated pilasters strips, broken out over moulded strings and parapet coping. Doorways irreguarly spaced: No.15 between the right-hand windows, No.16 to the right, No.17 to the left with a left-hand narrow hall window, No.18 to the right and No.19 between the left-hand windows; fluted pilasters below scrolled stone brackets to pediments, a broken segmental pediment to No.19, wooden frames with rectangular overlights and glazing bars, wrought-iron lamp-holders to Nos 15 & 18, and 8-panel doors. 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames, No.15 has keyed stone architraves and 3/6-pane second-floor sashes. Low segmental-arched basement hatches. 3 dormers each. INTERIOR: entrance halls with panelled partitions, fully-panelled rooms with cornices; fluted pilasters to hall arches, and open dogleg stairs with steps to the rear from the half-landings, column-on-vase balusters, moulded, ramped rails, and wainscot; 6-panel doors, panelled shutters, and carved fire surrounds. No.19 has a good open-well stair. No.15 has good Rococo plasterwork ceilings, probably by Joseph Thomas, to the walls and soffits of the stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front area railings and gates with urn finials. Constructed to varying plans for different clients, to common front dimensions. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 100; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 154).

Listing NGR: ST5845872980

External Links

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)