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© N.L. Stones
IoE Number:
380262
Location:
56, 57 AND 59-62 QUEEN SQUARE (west side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
N.L. Stones
Date Photographed:
06 October 2002
Date listed:
08 January 1959
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE
901-1/16/214 (West side)
08/01/59 No.57
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN SQUARE
(West side)
Nos.56, 57 AND 59-62 (Consecutive))
GV II
Attached house, now offices. c1833. By Henry Rumley. Limestone
ashlar, party wall stacks and pantile roof. Double-depth plan.
Neoclassical style.
3 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Part of a regular terrace
of similar houses; a right-hand doorway, banded ground floor
to a band with panelled pilasters, pilasters above with carved
anthemion capitals, frieze, cornice and attic storey with
string. Doorcase has fluted pilasters, entablature and
cornice, rectangular fanlight, and 4-panel door with roundels.
Ground-floor window set in shallow recessed surrounds,
consoles to pedimented lintels with acroteria and wreaths to
the first-floor windows, the rest plain, to 6/6-pane sashes,
3/3-pane to the attic.
INTERIOR: extensively re-furbished; elliptical hall arch to an
open dogleg winder stair with stick balusters and column
newels, cornices with guilloche and vine leaves, panelled
shutters and 6-panel doors. Built after the destruction of
Queen Square in the Reform Bill riots.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 229).