Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE QUEEN CHARLOTTE STREET
901-1/16/196 (East side)
08/01/59 No.59
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN CHARLOTTE STREET
Nos.55-61 (Odd))

GV II*

Attached house, now offices. 1709. By John Price. Refronted
1736 for Jacob Elton, possibly by John Strahan. Limestone
ashlar, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. Baroque style.
3 storeys and attic; 4-window range. Pilasters are rusticated
on the ground floor, panelled on the second, and fluted on the
third, with a plinth, deep strings that break forward over the
pilasters, and a cornice with sill blocks below the windows in
the plain, coped attic storey. A later Tuscan porch to the
left of centre has columns to a pediment, and a 6-panel door.
The windows have eared and shouldered architraves, heads, with
scribed voussoirs, that become more curved up the facade,
first-floor keys below the string, second-floor keys up to
aprons under the cornice, and fluted cill-block panels;
6/6-pane sashes, a narrow 4/4-pane sash to the left of the
door, C20 casements in the attic, and 9/9-pane rear sashes
with thick bars.
INTERIOR: a fairly complete early C18 interior includes a
panelled entrance hall with a fanlight, to a rear stairwell
with a good open-well stair, an uncut string, square newels
with pendents, barleysugar balusters and a moulded rail, and
wainscot; panelled partitions, fully-panelled ground- and
first-floor rooms, 2-panel doors, bolection-moulded
fireplaces, and cornices. A striking facade, '...one of the
most interesting Baroque terrace-house fronts in England'
(Gomme).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 125; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 170).

Listing NGR: ST5887972642

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552633

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House