Description

BRISTOL

ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE
901-1/16/210 (West side)
08/01/59 Nos.52 AND 53
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN SQUARE
(West side)
Nos.46-55 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of attached houses. c1833. Limestone ashlar, gable stacks
and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style.
Each of 3 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Recessed strips
to party walls, banded ground floor to a plat band, frieze,
cornice and parapet. Outer doorways have fluted pilasters to
an entablature and cornice, rectangular overlight and 4-panel
doors. Ground floor 8/8-pane sashes, 6/6-panes above, with
pedimented lintels with wreaths on the first floor; 2 dormers
to No.53, 1 to No.52.
INTERIOR: extensively modernised; entrance hall with guilloche
cornice, and a rear lateral open dogleg stair with turned
balusters and ramped rail.
Queen Square was built between 1701 and 1727. Much of the W
side was rebuilt after the 1831 Reform Bill riots.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 228; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings
of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 140).

Listing NGR: ST5867472551

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512745

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)