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Numbers 8 and 9 and Attached Front Area Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4537 / 51°27'13"N

Longitude: -2.6002 / 2°36'0"W

OS Eastings: 358388

OS Northings: 172915

OS Grid: ST583729

Mapcode National: GBR C6K.XR

Mapcode Global: VH88M.WQ6G

Plus Code: 9C3VF93X+FW

Entry Name: Numbers 8 and 9 and Attached Front Area Railings

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 25 May 2004

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1282080

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380751

ID on this website: 101282080

Location: Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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BRISTOL

901-1/15/309 UNITY STREET
08-JAN-59 (Northwest side)
8 AND 9
NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
UNITY STREET
(Northwest side)
8 AND 9
NUMBERS 8 AND 9 AND ATTACHED FRONT ARE
A RAILINGS

(Formerly listed as:
UNITY STREET
1 AND 3-9)

GV II
Pair of attached houses, now offices. Mid C18. Stucco with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof, hipped to the left. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A stepped continuation of a terrace has rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded, ramped coping. Doorways either side of the middle party wall have moulded frames, and early C19 bracketed pediments over, rectangular fanlights with good glazing bars, and 6-panel doors. 6/6-pane sashes in exposed frames; 2 hipped dormers each.
INTERIOR: Brick tunnel vaulted cellars. Remainder of interior not inspected, but noted as having panelled rooms, dogleg stairs with column-on-vase balusters, and cornices.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron railings to doorway of No.8. A later continuation of Nos 1 & 3-7 (qv).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: 210; Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 69).

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