Sailors Refuge, Bristol

The Sailors Refuge is an historic house situated at 27–29 Queen Square, Bristol, England.

[1] It was one of the architecturally richer houses, and provides an example of what the more demanding segment of houseowners required.

[1] The classical orders on the facade, though they are conventionally ordered from bottom to top, in the sequence Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, are placed so naively that they have no architectural relationship to the pediments over the windows or the cornice.

[2] The lack of any visible support for the window pediments, in the form of columns or projecting architraves, is similarly naive, and not in accord with proper architectural usage.

[2] It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.