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The Shakespeare Public House

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

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Latitude: 51.4496 / 51°26'58"N

Longitude: -2.5971 / 2°35'49"W

OS Eastings: 358605

OS Northings: 172460

OS Grid: ST586724

Mapcode National: GBR C7M.M6

Mapcode Global: VH88M.XTWL

Plus Code: 9C3VCCX3+R5

Entry Name: The Shakespeare Public House

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1209010

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380203

ID on this website: 101209010

Location: Canon's Marsh, 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

ST5872 PRINCE STREET
901-1/42/189 (West side)
08/01/59 Nos.68 AND 70
The Shakespeare Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
PRINCE STREET
(East side)
Nos.66-70)

GV II*

Pair of attached houses. 1725. By John Strahan. Limestone
ashlar, brick party wall stacks and a pantile roof.
Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys;
4-window range. Symmetrical fronts have a central pedimented
2-window range set forward with a banded ground floor;
rusticated pilasters, first-floor plat band, frieze, cornice
and parapet. Outer semicircular-arched doorways beside the
central section have floating cornices, keys and imposts,
fanlights and 6-panel doors. The middle windows on the ground
floor have semicircular arches with keys and incised
voussoirs, the rest have keyed segmental heads and
architraves, to 6/6-pane sashes. In the pediment are elaborate
heraldic cartouches of the original families. INTERIOR: No.68
is fairly complete and includes fully-panelled entrance hall
and ground-floor rooms, separated by a framed wall with an
elliptical arch; ramped wainscot to the rear dogleg stair,
which has a curtail, column-on-vase balusters, column newels
and ramped, toadback rail, and an uncut string to the attic;
doors with 4 fielded panels and panelled shutters.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 128).


Listing NGR: ST5860572460

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