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1-9, Queen Square

A Grade II* Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Latitude: 51.4513 / 51°27'4"N

Longitude: -2.5939 / 2°35'38"W

OS Eastings: 358825

OS Northings: 172643

OS Grid: ST588726

Mapcode National: GBR C8L.9L

Mapcode Global: VH88N.0S1B

Plus Code: 9C3VFC24+GC

Entry Name: 1-9, Queen Square

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1217926

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380246

ID on this website: 101217926

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
901-1/16/198 (North side)
08/01/59 Nos.1-9

GV II*

Terrace of 9 houses, now offices. 1833. By Henry Rumley.
Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks, roof not visible.
Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style.
Each of 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range.
Panelled pilasters to banded basement, pilasters above to
anthemion capitals, frieze, cornice and attic storey with
cornice. Paired doorways have fluted pilasters to an
entablature and cornice, good rectangular fanlights with round
glazing bars, and 2-panel doors; entrance to No.9 in the right
return. 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane attic sashes. Wrought-iron
tented balconies to Nos 2 & 6-9, with anthemia to the railings
and Greek key decoration to the stanchions.
INTERIORS: details vary, but include a central hall divided by
fluted pilasters to a semicircular panelled arch from an open
dogleg stair with turned balusters and curtails, guilloche
cornices, 6-panel doors and panelled shutters.
Queen Square was built between 1701 and 1727. The N side was
rebuilt after the Reform Bill riots of 1831.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 227).


Listing NGR: ST5880972648

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