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Latitude: 51.4516 / 51°27'5"N
Longitude: -2.5869 / 2°35'12"W
OS Eastings: 359311
OS Northings: 172680
OS Grid: ST593726
Mapcode National: GBR C9L.WG
Mapcode Global: VH88N.3SR1
Plus Code: 9C3VFC27+M6
Entry Name: Shakespeare Inn
Listing Date: 8 December 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282049
English Heritage Legacy ID: 380788
ID on this website: 101282049
Location: Box Makers Yard, Bristol, BS1
County: City of Bristol
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bristol
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol
Church of England Parish: St Mary Redcliffe with Temple, Bristol and St John the Baptist, Bedminster
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: Pub
BRISTOL
ST5972 VICTORIA STREET
901-1/42/331 (North East side)
08/12/72 No.78
Shakespeare Inn
GV II
House, now public house. Early C17, dated 1636 on front,
extensively restored 1950, re-roofed 1992. Timber box-frame
with roughcast, 2 rubble lateral stacks each side, topped with
brick, and a pantile roof. Double fronted gable end facing the
street, formerly a right-hand stair between the stacks, and
front and back rooms; left-hand stacks from previous house to
that side.
3 storeys, cellar and attic; 2-bay range. A symmetrical front
divided by pantiled pents to each floor, boxed eaves, wide
central doorway with 2-leaf 1950 studded door, and square
3-storey bays. The bases of timber posts flank doorway to
inside of bays, which have 2-leaf cellar doors with strap
hinges; first- and second-floor 4/8-pane sashes, with 6/6/6
sliding sashes to attic beneath an original moulding.
INTERIOR: largely 1950 behind the frontage, with a new stair;
moulded first- and second-floor beams. Through-purlin roof
with diagonal braces, nails and pegging. Timber barrel-run
down into the cellar from the street. The original plan form
is found in C17 merchants' houses after 1660s, for example in
King Street.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 87; Winstone R: Bristol As It Was:
Bristol: 1879-: PL 75).
Listing NGR: ST5931172680
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