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Latitude: 51.458 / 51°27'28"N
Longitude: -2.6081 / 2°36'29"W
OS Eastings: 357848
OS Northings: 173397
OS Grid: ST578733
Mapcode National: GBR C5J.46
Mapcode Global: VH88M.RM25
Plus Code: 9C3VF95R+5Q
Entry Name: Beacon House
Listing Date: 15 December 1972
Last Amended: 30 December 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282155
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380282
ID on this website: 101282155
Location: Victoria Park, Bristol, BS8
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: Clifton, St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: House
BRISTOL
ST5773SE QUEEN'S ROAD, Clifton
901-1/9/954 (East side)
15/12/72 Beacon House
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN'S ROAD
(North side)
Beacon House (Debenhams))
GV II
Formerly known as: Queen's Hotel QUEEN'S ROAD.
Hotel, now shop and offices. 1854. By WB Reed. Limestone
ashlar, lateral stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan.
Neoclassical style.
4 storeys and attic; 3-window range. C20 ground-floor shop
front. Upper floors divided into 3 sections by wide pilaster
strips to a frieze, cornice, and similar attic storey to
coping. Tripartite first-floor windows have recessed surrounds
and console cornices; second- and third-floor windows set in a
raised surround with a moulded band between, and sunken panels
flanking the bases of the lower windows: 6/6-pane sashes,
3/6-panes to the third floor, and 3/3-pane attic windows in
architraves. 2 large lateral stacks each side, with in the
right return a central window range with architraves.
INTERIOR: extensively re-modelled; an open dogleg stair
survives to the left with cast-iron foliate balusters.
'...a fascinating document of a moment of transition...'
between neo-classicism and later Italianate styles. (Gomme).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 349).
Listing NGR: ST5784873397
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