Royal Promenade
ROYAL PROMENADE, 48-68, QUEEN'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202477
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Promenade
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL PROMENADE, 48-68, QUEEN'S ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202477
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Promenade
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL PROMENADE, 48-68, QUEEN'S ROAD
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:
- ROYAL PROMENADE, 48-68, QUEEN'S ROAD
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 57940 73261
Details
BRISTOL
ST5773SE QUEEN'S ROAD 901-1/9/227 (North East side) 04/03/77 Nos.48-68 (Even) Royal Promenade
GV II
Terrace of 11 shops. 1859-68. By Foster and Wood. Limestone ashlar and granite columns, party wall stacks, slate roof with mansard sections. Double-depth plan. Italianate style. 2 storeys and attic; 38-window range. Part of a composed terrace has alternately sections of full attic storeys and mansards, 8:9:7:14 windows; a pilaster of faceted blocks to the right-hand end, ground-floor modillion cornice, string with guttae, second-floor sill band, dentil cornice, frieze and fluted brackets to a cornice, and attic storey with moulded coping. Ground-floor arcade of moulded semicircular arches with banded granite columns and capitals with volutes, and stone square piers to party walls; C20 infill shop fronts to all except Nos 58-66. Semicircular-arched first-floor windows have moulded jambs and plinths and carved capitals, linked by sill and impost bands; sections with attic storey have lengths of stone bracketed balconies, with balustrades of intersecting circles to the right-hand one; second-floor windows with architraves. Attic storey is articulated by panelled pilasters, with carved heads, to a cornice broken forward supporting spiked ball finials; windows have eared and shouldered architraves to segmental heads. Semicircular-arched dormers to the mansard sections have side brackets and ball finials, and linking parapet. 2/2-pane sashes, casements to the dormers. INTERIOR: largely remodelled for late C20 shops. A good and early shopping terrace, Bristol's first. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 355).
Listing NGR: ST5794073261
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 355
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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