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Number 1 and Attached Front Basement Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Clifton, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4509 / 51°27'3"N

Longitude: -2.6206 / 2°37'14"W

OS Eastings: 356968

OS Northings: 172615

OS Grid: ST569726

Mapcode National: GBR C2L.BR

Mapcode Global: VH88M.JSFM

Plus Code: 9C3VF92H+9P

Entry Name: Number 1 and Attached Front Basement Railings

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1202203

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379524

ID on this website: 101202203

Location: Hotwells, Bristol, BS8

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Clifton Holy Trinity with St Andrew the Less and St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description


BRISTOL

ST5672NE DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/13/1418 (West side) 08/01/59 No.1 and attached front basement railings (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.1)

GV II

Attached house. c1730. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and a pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping; right-hand doorway with 3-panelled jambs, reeded transom, brackets to a dentil pediment, batswing fanlight and 6-panel door. Lintels with rusticated voussoirs to 9/9-pane sashes in flush frames, 2 symmetrically-placed ground-floor sashes; single hipped dormer. The right return has a C18 shop window with 18-pane window and cornice, two 9/9-pane first-floor sashes and a single 6/6-pane sash. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron front area railings and gate with urn finials, and Pennant piers. Dowry Square was laid out by George Tully in 1720, and building continued until 1750. Each side had a 5-window middle house and outer 3-window ones, of brick, now altered and mostly rendered, to various designs. (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).

Listing NGR: ST5696872615

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