Queen Square House and Attached Front Area Walls and Piers
QUEEN SQUARE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND PIERS, 19 AND 21, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202465
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Square House and Attached Front Area Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN SQUARE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND PIERS, 19 AND 21, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202465
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Square House and Attached Front Area Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN SQUARE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND PIERS, 19 AND 21, QUEEN SQUARE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN SQUARE HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND PIERS, 19 AND 21, QUEEN SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 58876 72519
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/07/2012
ST5872NE
901-1/16/201
04/03/77
BRISTOL
QUEEN SQUARE
(East side)
Nos.19 AND 21
Queen Square House and attached
front area walls and piers
(Formerly Listed as: QUEEN SQUARE (East side)
Nos.19-21 (Consecutive) Port of Bristol Authority Docks Office)
GV
II
Office. 1889. By WV Gough, with terracotta work by Gibbs and Canning of
Tamworth. For the Port of Bristol Authority.
Terracotta and brick with marble and Portland dressings, brick
gable and axial stacks and a slate roof. Double-depth plan.
Lavish Classical style with a French Empire style roof.
2 storeys, basement and attic; 7-window range, 2-window
right-hand extension. A very elaborate, symmetrical front has
a right-of-centre doorway; 1:5:1 windows separated by deep
pilasters, heavily rusticated on the ground floor, deep
cornices, dentil on the first and attic storeys and modillion
on the second floor; parapet.
The middle section has ground-floor pilasters to first-floor
marble Ionic columns on pedestals. The cornices break forward
over the pilasters, which carry through to urn finials. A tall
doorway has moulded jambs, acanthus consoles to a segmental
pediment with its bedmould in the cornice, containing a
cartouche, with a 2-leaf 28-panel door. Mullion and transom
windows, with single ones flanking the centre, have rounded
corners and plate-glass sashes.
Ground-floor sill band with brick panels beneath; first-floor
has panelled jambs to pediments, segmental over the single and
outer windows, timber transoms below stained-glass lights,
with curved balustrades in front; attic storey has
semicircular arcades set in rectangular recesses, with a tall
central 2-light dormer with a raised panel and segmental
pediment.
The gables have curved brackets to large panelled stacks, with
smaller ones either side of a shallow hipped gable in the
middle of the roof, and a pierced ridge decoration. 4 Portland
statues on pedestals to the first-floor pilasters, of women
representing 4 continents. The matching extension has a lower
roof.
INTERIOR: terracotta detailing to an entrance hall, a large
rear stair well with 3 segmental arches to an imperial stair
with a balustrade, newels with heraldic beasts and a wainscot;
frieze with festoon and panelled plaster ceilings; panelled
oak door reveals and 5-panel doors; a 3/4 panelled front
first-floor room with fireplaces and panelled ceiling.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area wall has rusticated
piers.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 392; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in
Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 61).
Listing NGR: ST5887672519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 392
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 61
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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