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© Mr Michael Perry
IoE Number:
380264
Location:
NUMBERS 59 TO 62 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND PIERS, 59-62 QUEEN SQUARE (west side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mr Michael Perry
Date Photographed:
02 April 2006
Date listed:
08 January 1959
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE
901-1/16/216 (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).