27 and 28 Queen Square
27 AND 28, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282151
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- 27 and 28 Queen Square
- Statutory Address:
- 27 AND 28, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282151
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 27 and 28 Queen Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27 AND 28, 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:
- 27 AND 28, 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:
- ST5884172460
Details
BRISTOL
ST5872
901-1/42/203
QUEEN SQUARE (South side)
27 and 28 Queen Square
(Formerly Listed as QUEEN SQUARE (South side) Nos. 27-29 (Consecutive))
08/01/59
II*
Pair of attached houses, now offices. Early C18. Brick and render with limestone dressings, brick valley stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style.
Each of three storeys, basement and attic; two window range. A matching pair, no. 27 now rendered and parapeted, and missing no. 28's string courses, modillion cornices and boxed eaves. Right-hand doorways with good bracketed shell hoods, rectangular overlights with fanned glazing bars and six-panel doors. Rubbed brick arches with stone keys to six-over-six pane sashes, plate glass on no. 28.
INTERIOR: No. 27 has a panelled entrance hall with a framed side wall, a glazed screen and half-glazed door both with margin bars, and a semicircular arch on fluted pilasters; a rear dogleg stair with an uncut string, column-on-vase balusters, square newels and a wreathed, moulded rail; four-panel doors and panelled shutters. No. 28 has a similar interior.
One of the few remaining original houses of Queen Square, which was laid out in 1699 and has claim to being the largest square in England. Built between 1701 and 1727, to varied width leases and similar designs.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 September 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 96
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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