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Number 12 and Attached Front Area Railings and Piers

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4511 / 51°27'3"N

Longitude: -2.6197 / 2°37'10"W

OS Eastings: 357036

OS Northings: 172639

OS Grid: ST570726

Mapcode National: GBR C2L.KN

Mapcode Global: VH88M.JSYG

Plus Code: 9C3VF92J+C4

Entry Name: Number 12 and Attached Front Area Railings and Piers

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1206485

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379535

Also known as: No.12 and attached basement area railings and piers

ID on this website: 101206485

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

Tagged with: House School building

Description


BRISTOL

ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/14/1429 (East side) 08/01/59 No.12 and attached front area railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.12)

GV II*

House, now school. Dated 1750. Possibly designed by Thomas Paty. Built by Richard Matthews. Roughcast with limestone dressings, gable stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and bsement; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping. The doorway has curved steps up, and shallow blocked jambs and a stepped key to an 8-panel door. Cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs, with a console pediment to the centre on the first floor and a console cornice to the second floor above, to 6/6-pane ground- and first-floor sashes, with thick bars on the first floor, and 3/6-panes on the second; late C18 timber canted bay to the right has 8/8-pane sashes in flush frames. Rear elevation has a central shallow, gabled stair block. INTERIOR: entrance passage divided by a semicircular arch with key and cornice, rear dogleg stair with uncut string, column balusters and paired newels, and a ramped, moulded rail; plain fire surrounds, 4-panel doors and panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area walls, railings and piers. Dowry Square was laid out by George Tully in 1720, and building continued until 1750. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 105; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 156).

Listing NGR: ST5703672639

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