THE SHAKESPEARE PUBLIC HOUSE

THE SHAKESPEARE PUBLIC HOUSE, 68 AND 70, PRINCE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1209010
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: THE SHAKESPEARE PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE SHAKESPEARE PUBLIC HOUSE, 68 AND 70, PRINCE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1209010
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: THE SHAKESPEARE PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE SHAKESPEARE PUBLIC HOUSE, 68 AND 70, PRINCE STREET

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:: THE SHAKESPEARE PUBLIC HOUSE, 68 AND 70, PRINCE STREET

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 58605 72460

Details

BRISTOL

ST5872 PRINCE STREET 901-1/42/189 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.68 AND 70 The Shakespeare Public House (Formerly Listed as: PRINCE STREET (East side) Nos.66-70)

GV II*

Pair of attached houses. 1725. By John Strahan. Limestone ashlar, brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys; 4-window range. Symmetrical fronts have a central pedimented 2-window range set forward with a banded ground floor; rusticated pilasters, first-floor plat band, frieze, cornice and parapet. Outer semicircular-arched doorways beside the central section have floating cornices, keys and imposts, fanlights and 6-panel doors. The middle windows on the ground floor have semicircular arches with keys and incised voussoirs, the rest have keyed segmental heads and architraves, to 6/6-pane sashes. In the pediment are elaborate heraldic cartouches of the original families. INTERIOR: No.68 is fairly complete and includes fully-panelled entrance hall and ground-floor rooms, separated by a framed wall with an elliptical arch; ramped wainscot to the rear dogleg stair, which has a curtail, column-on-vase balusters, column newels and ramped, toadback rail, and an uncut string to the attic; doors with 4 fielded panels and panelled shutters. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 128).

Listing NGR: ST5860572460

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Legacy System number:: 380203
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 128

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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.