Description

BRISTOL

901-1/15/149 ORCHARD STREET
08-JAN-59 (Northwest side)
10
NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAIL
INGS

(Formerly listed as:
ORCHARD STREET
10-14)

GV II*
Attached house. 1717-22. Painted brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 4-window range. Rusticated pilaster strips through moulded strings at each floor to a moulded parapet coping. A right-hand doorway has a timber bracketed open pediment, architrave with an over-light containing a good metal fanlight, and a 5-panel door, the top 4 raised. Windows with keyed brick flat arches, a small 4/4-pane sash to the right of the doorway, 2 horned 6/6-pane sashes to the left, and hornless 6/6-pane sashes above; hipped dormer.
INTERIOR: entrance stair hall with good rocaille ceiling, fully-panelled ground-floor rooms connected by a wide elliptical arch on fluted pilasters, an eared fire surround to the front room with a rocaille panel above; an open-well stair has barleysugar balusters per tread, fluted newel and curtail with a ramped, moulded rail, the stair dividing at the half-landing with a short flight to the rear service block; first-floor fire surround with swag; panelled shutters and 4-panel doors. Brick tunnel vaulted cellars.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front area railings with finials. Laid out by the Corporation as a terrace with Nos. 10-13, though built by separate developers, and forming a group with the rest of Orchard and Unity Streets (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 101; Mowl T: To Build the Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 15).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552792

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)