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Number 10 and Attached Basement Area Railings and Piers

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4513 / 51°27'4"N

Longitude: -2.6198 / 2°37'11"W

OS Eastings: 357029

OS Northings: 172656

OS Grid: ST570726

Mapcode National: GBR C2L.JM

Mapcode Global: VH88M.JSWB

Plus Code: 9C3VF92J+G3

Entry Name: Number 10 and Attached Basement Area Railings and Piers

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1280221

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379533

ID on this website: 101280221

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

ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/14/1427 (North side) 08/01/59 No.10 and attached basement area railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.10)

GV II*

Attached house. c1746. By George Tully. Built by Richard Matthews. Limestone ashlar and render over brick, brick gable and party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, basement and attic; 4-window range. Part of an attached pair with a rusticated ground floor, moulded ground- and first-floor bands and a moulded coping. A good doorway set between the outer windows, a centrally place window to the right, has fluted Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze, segmental pediment and a 6-panel door. Segmental-arched windows have keyed architraves with sill blocks to 6/6-pane sashes; 2 hipped dormers. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a good open-well stair, panelled doors and shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached entrance walls, capped piers and wrought-iron basement area railings. Dowry Square was laid in 1720 by Tully and building continued until 1750. The sides had brick 5-window central houses and 3-window flanking ones, most now rendered and altered. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 205; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).

Listing NGR: ST5702972656

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