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Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers

A Grade II* Listed Building in Clifton, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4511 / 51°27'4"N

Longitude: -2.6205 / 2°37'13"W

OS Eastings: 356980

OS Northings: 172642

OS Grid: ST569726

Mapcode National: GBR C2L.CN

Mapcode Global: VH88M.JSJF

Plus Code: 9C3VF92H+CR

Entry Name: Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1202206

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379527

ID on this website: 101202206

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 901-1/13/1421 (West side) 08/01/59 No.4 and attached front basement railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.4)

GV II*

Attached house. 1748. Probably by Thomas Paty. Brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping and parapet, and rusticated quoins to the pedimented middle section which breaks forward. The doorway has a mid C19 porch of fluted columns on octagonal Pennant plinths with acanthus capitals to an entablature and dentil cornice, 2-panel door with roundels and margin and overlights. Cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes; 3 hipped dormers. INTERIOR: mid C19 decorative scheme, with an entrance hall divided by flat arch with guilloche and Greek key panels and cornices, doorways with cornices and 2-panel doors and panelled shutters, with a rear mid C20 stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached mid C19 cast-iron spike-headed railings with foliate decoration, and capped piers. Dowry Square was laid out by 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. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 105; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).

Listing NGR: ST5698072642

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