I think the building line is now the outer edge of the paved are of the Queens Hotel access area, and it was the Ikon Gallery that was damaged in the 1974 bomb blast. The Royal navy & Royal Marines recruiting office was next door.
To me it looks like the overhang (of what was the Palisades) might be the only part of the building exceeding the original footprint of Queen's Hotel, while the shops at street level remain within the Queen's Hotel footprint.
Viv.
The topography of this area has always puzzled me because as others have noted, Stephenson Street is now very narrow and not the wide street it used to be. Looking at the maps, the Queens Hotel must have been a very narrow, if long building or maybe it is just difficult to visualise now.Vivienne
What you say is possibly quite true, here are before and after maps for comparison. though it was more than an overhang wasn't it? It was more or less part of the building without a frontage,
Fantastic - thank youThis might help. Hope it works. If you slide the blue button on the bottom left an old map will appear overlaying a modern map.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=52.4787&lon=-1.8997&layers=171&b=1