Brown's Restaurant and Attached Front Area Walls and Railings
BROWN'S RESTAURANT AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, QUEEN'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218162
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Brown's Restaurant and Attached Front Area Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- BROWN'S RESTAURANT AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, QUEEN'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218162
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Brown's Restaurant and Attached Front Area Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROWN'S RESTAURANT AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- BROWN'S RESTAURANT AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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 58014 73224
Details
BRISTOL
ST5873SW QUEEN'S ROAD 901-1/10/229 (North East side) 01/11/66 Brown's Restaurant and attached front area walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: QUEENS ROAD (North side) University Refectory and Dining Room)
GV II
Formerly known as: City Museum and Library QUEEN'S ROAD. Museum and library, refectory, now restaurant. 1867-71. By Foster and Ponton. Yellow brick with red brick decoration and limestone dressings, pantile hipped roof. Rectangular open plan. Venetian Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys; 7-window range. A symmetrical front has steps up to a ground-floor loggia with an arcade of 2-centre moulded arches on columns with good foliate capitals, the outer pair of arches on octagonal columns, and now blocked and rendered. First-floor band of shields, below an arcade of alternate large 2-centre arches with 2 orders, glazed, with trefoil heads, and narrow, pointed blind statue niches. Band of nailheads below a coved cornice and parapet. Inside the loggia are 3 tall arches on square columns with acanthus capitals, containing flat-headed openings with an ovolo moulding, and round windows above. Matching left return has 9 ground-floor arches containing triple lancets and round windows above, and 7 first-floor arches linked by an impost band of foliate forms. INTERIOR: largely rebuilt c1950. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area walls and stone railings. Foster was responsible for the exterior, described as '...the greatest compliment the West Country paid to John Ruskin' (Pevsner). Much of the decorative detail including pinnacles and parapet has been lost through gutting during the Second World War. One of the barleysugar columns for the corner pinnacles survives to the rear of the left return. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 397; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 29; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 414).
Listing NGR: ST5801473224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380276
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 414
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 397
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 29
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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