Nos. 36, 37 and 38 QUEEN SQUARE

36, 37 AND 38, QUEEN SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202468
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: Nos. 36, 37 and 38 QUEEN SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 36, 37 AND 38, QUEEN SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202468
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: Nos. 36, 37 and 38 QUEEN SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 36, 37 AND 38, QUEEN SQUARE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 36, 37 AND 38, 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:: ST5874172475

Details

ST 5872, 901-1/42/205 BRISTOL, QUEEN SQUARE (South side), Nos. 36, 37 and 38

(Formerly Listed as: QUEEN SQUARE (South side) Nos. 36-42 (Consecutive))

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II*

Terrace of three houses. c1703. Brick, limestone ashlar and render, with limestone quoins and dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of three storeys, basement and attic; 5-window range. A symmetrical group with a continuous roof, modillion eaves cornice and three dormers, and matching end houses. No. 37 in the middle has a rusticated ground floor to a plat band, and render above; a central Doric portico and entablature over a doorway with a moulded surround and 5-panel door, incised voussoirs on the ground floor, the rest plain, to 6/6-pane sashes with fine bars and exposed frames, with bolection mouldings on the second floor. Nos. 36 & 38 have quoins, and strings on each floor; central doorways have attached timber porches with Doric columns to a pediment, fanlights and 6-panel doors; keyed, rubbed, brick flat arches to 6/6-pane sashes in bolection-moulded exposed frames. The left return has a C19 doorway and a small gable.

INTERIOR: No. 37 has a large entrance hall, fully-panelled ground-floor rooms, with window seats, panelled shutters, bolection-moulded door frames and 6-panel doors; a rear open-well stair with an uncut string, barleysugar balusters, square newels and toadback rail, with a fielded wainscot. One of the few remaining original houses of Queen Square, which was laid out in 1699 and has claim to being the largest square in England, and built between 1701 and 1727 to leases of varied width and similar design. (Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 12).

Listing NGR: ST5874172475

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 380253
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 12

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.