NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS

NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 48, QUEEN SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202470
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 48, QUEEN SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202470
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 48, 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:: NUMBER 48 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 48, 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 58670 72514

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE 901-1/16/207 (West side) 08/01/59 No.48 and attached railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN SQUARE (West side) Nos.46-55 (Consecutive))

GV II

Attached house. c1833. Limestone ashlar and render, party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A near symmetrical front has panelled pilasters to a banded ground floor, pilasters above linked by a frieze, cornice and parapet. Right-of-centre doorway has fluted pilasters to an entablature and cornice, rectangular fanlight with lantern, and 6-panel door. Ground-floor windows in recessed surrounds to 8/8-pane sashes, 6/6-pane sashes above, with a central pediment lintel with wreath on the first floor. INTERIOR: central dogleg stair with stick balusters, curtail and 6-panel doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area railings with palmette finials and piers. 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: ST5867072514

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Legacy System number:: 380255
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 94 229

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