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Numbers 59 to 62 and Attached Railings and Piers

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.451 / 51°27'3"N

Longitude: -2.5959 / 2°35'45"W

OS Eastings: 358684

OS Northings: 172609

OS Grid: ST586726

Mapcode National: GBR C7L.VQ

Mapcode Global: VH88M.YSHK

Plus Code: 9C3VFC23+9J

Entry Name: Numbers 59 to 62 and Attached Railings and Piers

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1218102

English Heritage Legacy ID: 380264

ID on this website: 101218102

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 901-1/16/216 (West side) 08/01/59 Nos.59-62 (Consecutive) and attached railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN SQUARE (West side) Nos.56, 57 AND 59-62 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now offices. c1833. By Henry Rumley. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. Each of 3 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Regular terrace has doorways at the ends and paired in the middle, banded ground floor to a band, divided by panelled pilasters, pilasters above with carved anthemion capitals, frieze, cornice and coped attic storey with string. Doorcases have fluted pilasters, entablatures and cornices, rectangular overlights, some with plate glass, and 2-panel doors. Single ground-floor windows set in shallow recessed surrounds, the rest plain, to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane to the attic. INTERIOR: extensively re-furbished; hall arches to dogleg winder stairs with stick balusters and column newels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area bud-headed railings and panelled piers. Built after the destruction of Queen Square in the 1831 Reform Bill riots. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 228).

Listing NGR: ST5868472609

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