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

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)