52 and 53, Queen Square is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. House. 3 related planning applications.
52 and 53, Queen Square
- WRENN ID
- low-transept-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- 52 and 53, Queen Square, BS1 4LH
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 725
- Coordinates
- 51.45043, -2.5961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
52 and 53 Queen Square are a pair of attached houses built around 1833 in Bristol. They are constructed from limestone ashlar and feature gable stacks and a pantile roof, following a double-depth plan in a Neoclassical style. Each house has three storeys and an attic, with a two-window range. The party walls have recessed strips, and the ground floor is banded to a plat band, frieze, cornice, and parapet. The outer doorways are adorned with fluted pilasters leading to an entablature and cornice, with rectangular overlights and four-panel doors. The ground floor windows are 8/8-pane sashes, while the upper floors have 6/6-pane sashes, with pedimented lintels featuring wreaths on the first floor. No. 53 has two dormers, while No. 52 has one. The interior has been extensively modernised, including an entrance hall with a guilloche cornice and a rear lateral open dogleg stair with turned balusters and a ramped rail. Queen Square itself was developed between 1701 and 1727, with much of the west side being rebuilt after the 1831 Reform Bill riots.
Local climate
52 and 53, 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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