55, QUEEN SQUARE
55, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218086
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- 55, QUEEN SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 55, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218086
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- 55, QUEEN SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, 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:
- 55, 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 58675 72564
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE 901-1/16/212 (West side) 08/01/59 No.55
GV II
Attached house. Early C18. Stucco over brick with limestone dressings, gable stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys and attic; 3-window range. A near-symmetrical front has rusticated quoins to boxed eaves. Doorway with a good shell-hood on acanthus brackets and 4-panel door. Plate-glass sashes in exposed frames, and a wide C20 dormer. INTERIOR: central lateral dogleg winder stair, 2-panel doors with HL hinges, and fireplaces with eared surrounds. HISTORICAL NOTE: Queen Square was built between 1701 and 1727, to varied width leases and similar designs. No.55 survived the destruction of much of the W side in the 1831 Reform Bill riots. (Andor Gomme, Michael Jenner and Bryan Little: Bristol An architectural history: Bristol: 1979-: 95; Walter Ison: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 140).
Listing NGR: ST5867572564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380260
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 95
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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