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57, Queen Square

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Latitude: 51.4508 / 51°27'2"N

Longitude: -2.596 / 2°35'45"W

OS Eastings: 358683

OS Northings: 172594

OS Grid: ST586725

Mapcode National: GBR C7L.VR

Mapcode Global: VH88M.YSHP

Plus Code: 9C3VFC23+8J

Entry Name: 57, Queen Square

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1218091

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380262

ID on this website: 101218091

Location: Bristol, BS1

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Bristol St Stephen with St James and St John the Baptist with St Michael and St George

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



BRISTOL

ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE
901-1/16/214 (West side)
08/01/59 No.57
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN SQUARE
(West side)
Nos.56, 57 AND 59-62 (Consecutive))

GV II

Attached house, now offices. c1833. By Henry Rumley. Limestone
ashlar, party wall stacks and pantile roof. Double-depth plan.
Neoclassical style.
3 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Part of a regular terrace
of similar houses; a right-hand doorway, banded ground floor
to a band with panelled pilasters, pilasters above with carved
anthemion capitals, frieze, cornice and attic storey with
string. Doorcase has fluted pilasters, entablature and
cornice, rectangular fanlight, and 4-panel door with roundels.
Ground-floor window set in shallow recessed surrounds,
consoles to pedimented lintels with acroteria and wreaths to
the first-floor windows, the rest plain, to 6/6-pane sashes,
3/3-pane to the attic.
INTERIOR: extensively re-furbished; elliptical hall arch to an
open dogleg winder stair with stick balusters and column
newels, cornices with guilloche and vine leaves, panelled
shutters and 6-panel doors. Built after the destruction of
Queen Square in the Reform Bill riots.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 229).


Listing NGR: ST5868372594

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