Description

BRISTOL

ST5672NE DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells
901-1/13/1423 (North side)
08/01/59 No.6
and attached front basement walls
and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
DOWRY SQUARE
No.6)

GV II*

Attached house. c1725. By George Tully. Stucco over brick,
brick gable and party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile
roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys,
attic and basement; 2-window range. Part of a terrace of 3
houses articulated by rusticated pilaster strips, with moulded
ground- and first-floor bands and a moulded coping, with a
central entrance wing extending across the corner of the
square. A right-hand doorway has a plain bracketed canopy,
3-pane overlight and 6-panel door. Lintels with 5 rusticated
voussoirs to 4/4-pane sashes in flush frames, and 9/9 sashes
to ground-floor left with fixed upper lights; slate hipped
dormer. Rear elevation has a 5-window range with 4/4-pane
sashes in exposed frames, and 3 slate-hung dormers with
6/6-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: dogleg stair with square newels, moulded pine
handrail, turned balusters. Left-hand ground-floor room
panelled with shell niche and brown marble surround to
fireplace.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area walls and
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. A plaque records that Sir
Humphrey Davy lived here 1799-1801.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 105).

Listing NGR: ST5699572667

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552465

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Recommended Books

• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)