58, Queen Square

BRISTOL

ST5872NE QUEEN SQUARE 901-1/16/215 (West side) 08/01/59 No.58 (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; 3-window range. Part of a regular terrace of similar houses; a right-hand doorway, banded ground floor to a band, frieze, cornice and coped attic storey. Doorcase has fluted pilasters, entablature and cornice, rectangular metal fanlight with intersecting circles, and 4-panel door with roundels. 2 ground-floor windows set in shallow recessed surrounds, consoles to a pedimented lintel with acroteria and wreath to the middle first-floor window, the rest plain, to 6/6-pane sashes, 3/3-pane to the attic. INTERIOR: extensively refurbished; 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 1831 Reform Bill riots. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 228).

Listing NGR: ST5868472602