Numbers 46 and 47 and Attached Railings and Piers
NUMBERS 46 AND 47 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 46 AND 47, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202469
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 46 and 47 and Attached Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 46 AND 47 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 46 AND 47, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202469
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 46 and 47 and Attached Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 46 AND 47 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 46 AND 47, 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:
- NUMBERS 46 AND 47 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 46 AND 47, 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 58668 72502
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE 901-1/16/206 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.46 AND 47 and attached railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN SQUARE (West side) Nos.46-55 (Consecutive))
GV II
Attached pair of houses, now offices. c1833. Limestone ashlar and render with limestone dressings, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. Banded ground floor with pilaster strips to a plat band, panelled on the ground floor, to a frieze, cornice and parapet. Left-hand doorway to No.47, with fluted pilasters to an entablature and cornice, plate-glass overlight and 6-panel door; doorway to No.46 in the right return, similar but wider with blank margin lights. 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-panes to the attic storey. Near symmetrical 3-window range left return. Plat band inscribed QUEEN SQUARE to the left. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area railings and pier. Queen Square was built between 1701 and 1727. Much of the W side was rebuilt after the Reform Bill riots of 1831. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 94, 229).
Listing NGR: ST5866872502
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380254
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 229
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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