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Shakespeare Inn

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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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

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Description



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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