Nos. 36, 37 and 38 QUEEN SQUARE
36, 37 AND 38, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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.
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:
- 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))
GV
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
Legacy
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.
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