Numbers 59 to 62 and Attached Railings and Piers
NUMBERS 59 TO 62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 59-62, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218102
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 59 to 62 and Attached Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 59 TO 62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 59-62, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218102
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 59 to 62 and Attached Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 59 TO 62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 59-62, 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:
- NUMBERS 59 TO 62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 59-62, 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 58684 72609
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE 901-1/16/216 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.59-62 (Consecutive) and attached railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN SQUARE (West side) Nos.56, 57 AND 59-62 (Consecutive))
GV II
Terrace of 4 houses, now offices. c1833. By Henry Rumley. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Regular terrace has doorways at the ends and paired in the middle, banded ground floor to a band, divided by panelled pilasters, pilasters above with carved anthemion capitals, frieze, cornice and coped attic storey with string. Doorcases have fluted pilasters, entablatures and cornices, rectangular overlights, some with plate glass, and 2-panel doors. Single ground-floor windows set in shallow recessed surrounds, the rest plain, to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane to the attic. INTERIOR: extensively re-furbished; hall arches to dogleg winder stairs with stick balusters and column newels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area bud-headed railings and panelled piers. Built after the destruction of Queen Square in the 1831 Reform Bill riots. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 228).
Listing NGR: ST5868472609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380264
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 228
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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