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The Georgian House is a historic building at 7 Great George Street,
Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...
,
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. It was originally built around 1790 for
John Pinney John Pretor Pinney (1740 – 23 January 1818) was a plantation owner on the island of Nevis in the West Indies and was a sugar merchant in Bristol. He made his fortune from England’s demand for sugar. His Bristol residence is now the city ...
, a wealthy sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and is now furnished and displayed as a typical late 18th century town house. The period house museum includes a drawing room, eating room, study, kitchen, laundry and housekeeper's room. There is also a small display on slavery and sugar plantations. The Georgian House has been a branch of
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since it was presented to the city as a museum in 1937. The museum is open from 1 April to 31 December on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 11am-4pm. It received 32,127 visitors in 2019.


History

The Georgian House is a well-preserved example of a typical late 18th-century town house, which has been designated by
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as a grade II*
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. It was built around 1790 for
John Pinney John Pretor Pinney (1740 – 23 January 1818) was a plantation owner on the island of Nevis in the West Indies and was a sugar merchant in Bristol. He made his fortune from England’s demand for sugar. His Bristol residence is now the city ...
, a sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and is believed to be the house where the poets
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first met. It was also home to Pinney's slave, Pero, after whom
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is named. It contains some of the original furniture and fittings, such as the bureau-bookcase in the study and a rare cold water plunge bath, and has been used as a location for the
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TV series A Respectable Trade, which was adapted from the book by
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, about the slave trade.


Areas of the house

*The Dining Room *Pinney's Study *The Drawing Room *Library and a Ladies’ Withdrawing Room *The Bedroom *A hidden staircase *A small lift (dumb waiter) *The Housekeeper's Room *The cold water plunge pool


Film and media

On 5 July 2010,
Amanda Vickery Amanda Jane Vickery (born 8 December 1962) is an English historian, writer, radio and television presenter, and professor of early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London. Education and career Vickery was born in Preston, Lancashi ...
filmed scenes for her series '' At home with the Georgians'' at the Georgian House.


See also

* The Red Lodge Museum *
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* Blaise Castle House Museum *
Kings Weston House Kings Weston House () is a historic building in Kings Weston Lane, Kingsweston, Bristol, England. History It was built between 1712 and 1719 was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh for Edward Southwell on the site of an earlier Tudor house, remodell ...
*
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References


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The Georgian House Museum
{{Culture in Bristol Historic house museums in Bristol Houses completed in 1791 Grade II* listed houses Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol Georgian architecture in Bristol Museums established in 1937 1937 establishments in England