Description

BRISTOL

ST5773SE QUEEN'S ROAD 901-1/9/226 (South West side) 04/03/77 Nos.43-59 AND 71-81 (Odd)

GV II

Divided terrace of 9 and 5 shops, formerly a continuous terrace of 19 shops; Nos 61-69 rebuilt mid C20 and not included. 1861. By Foster and Wood. Limestone ashlar with party wall stacks, roof not visible. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; left-hand 11-window range and right-hand 7-window range. The terrace curves round at both ends, with first-floor lintel band, second-floor sill band, a bracketed cornice with swag in the frieze between the brackets, and a parapet; vertical panels on the E end of palmettes. C20 ground-floor shop fronts, and C19 bank fronts to each end: Nos 43 & 45 have 5 tripartite windows with panelled aprons and an entablature and cornice, and 2 doorways with eared architraves and segmental pediments to 6-panel doors; No.77B has a rusticated ground-floor to the right with a doorway with plain surround and 6-panel door, left-hand section articulated by paired Doric columns to an entablature, with acanthus consoles dividing the fascia, and left-hand doorway with an architrave and 6-panel door. Upper windows have architraves, raised aprons panelled to the second floor, and console cornices; second-floor pediments to paired windows to Nos 51-57 and 71-75, and segmental pediments to tripartite windows to the rest, to plate-glass sashes. Attic windows over the pediments set between cornice brackets. INTERIOR not inspected. The opposite range to Royal Parade (qv); the middle was destroyed in the war and rebuilt in a contrasting style. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 357).

Listing NGR: ST5787773262

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