56, Queen Square is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Office. 1 related planning application.
56, Queen Square
- WRENN ID
- gilded-buttress-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 56, Queen Square, BS1 4LF
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 725
- Coordinates
- 51.45074, -2.596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 Queen Square is an attached house, now used as offices, built around 1833 by Henry Rumley. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with party wall stacks and a pantile roof, featuring a double-depth plan in a Neoclassical style. The building has three storeys and an attic, with a three-window range. It is part of a regular terrace of similar houses, with the doorway located on the left side. The ground floor is banded, with panelled pilasters, and above are pilasters with carved anthemion capitals, a frieze, cornice, and parapet, with the centre section projecting forward. The doorcase includes fluted pilasters, an entablature, a cornice, a rectangular plate-glass fanlight, and a four-panel door with roundels. The ground-floor windows are set in shallow recessed surrounds, featuring 6/6-pane sashes with margin panes on the ground floor. The windows have consoles supporting pedimented lintels with acroteria and wreaths on the central first-floor window, while the others are plain. There are three dormers. The building was constructed following the destruction of Queen Square during the 1831 Reform Bill riots.
Local climate
56, Queen Square receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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