Shakespeare Inn
SHAKESPEARE INN, 78, VICTORIA STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282049
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shakespeare Inn
- Statutory Address:
- SHAKESPEARE INN, 78, VICTORIA STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282049
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Shakespeare Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAKESPEARE INN, 78, VICTORIA STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHAKESPEARE INN, 78, VICTORIA STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59311 72680
Details
BRISTOL
ST5972 VICTORIA STREET 901-1/42/331 (North East side) 08/12/72 No.78 Shakespeare Inn
GV II
House, now public house. Early C17, dated 1636 on front, extensively restored 1950, re-roofed 1992. Timber box-frame with roughcast, 2 rubble lateral stacks each side, topped with brick, and a pantile roof. Double fronted gable end facing the street, formerly a right-hand stair between the stacks, and front and back rooms; left-hand stacks from previous house to that side. 3 storeys, cellar and attic; 2-bay range. A symmetrical front divided by pantiled pents to each floor, boxed eaves, wide central doorway with 2-leaf 1950 studded door, and square 3-storey bays. The bases of timber posts flank doorway to inside of bays, which have 2-leaf cellar doors with strap hinges; first- and second-floor 4/8-pane sashes, with 6/6/6 sliding sashes to attic beneath an original moulding. INTERIOR: largely 1950 behind the frontage, with a new stair; moulded first- and second-floor beams. Through-purlin roof with diagonal braces, nails and pegging. Timber barrel-run down into the cellar from the street. The original plan form is found in C17 merchants' houses after 1660s, for example in King Street. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 87; Winstone R: Bristol As It Was: Bristol: 1879-: PL 75).
Listing NGR: ST5931172680
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380788
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Winstone, R, Bristol As It Was 1879-1874 (1965), 75
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History (1979), 87
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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