52 AND 53, QUEEN SQUARE
52 AND 53, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218080
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 53, QUEEN SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 52 AND 53, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218080
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 52 AND 53, QUEEN SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 52 AND 53, 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:
- 52 AND 53, 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 58674 72551
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE 901-1/16/210 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.52 AND 53 (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN SQUARE (West side) Nos.46-55 (Consecutive))
GV II
Pair of attached houses. c1833. Limestone ashlar, gable stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Recessed strips to party walls, banded ground floor to a plat band, frieze, cornice and parapet. Outer doorways have fluted pilasters to an entablature and cornice, rectangular overlight and 4-panel doors. Ground floor 8/8-pane sashes, 6/6-panes above, with pedimented lintels with wreaths on the first floor; 2 dormers to No.53, 1 to No.52. INTERIOR: extensively modernised; entrance hall with guilloche cornice, and a rear lateral open dogleg stair with turned balusters and ramped rail. Queen Square was built between 1701 and 1727. Much of the W side was rebuilt after the 1831 Reform Bill riots. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 228; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 140).
Listing NGR: ST5867472551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380258
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 228
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 140
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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