NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS

NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1, DOWRY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202203
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1, DOWRY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1202203
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1, DOWRY SQUARE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS, 1, DOWRY SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 56968 72615

Details

BRISTOL

ST5672NE DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/13/1418 (West side) 08/01/59 No.1 and attached front basement railings (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.1)

GV II

Attached house. c1730. Render with limestone dressings, party wall stacks and a pantile hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping; right-hand doorway with 3-panelled jambs, reeded transom, brackets to a dentil pediment, batswing fanlight and 6-panel door. Lintels with rusticated voussoirs to 9/9-pane sashes in flush frames, 2 symmetrically-placed ground-floor sashes; single hipped dormer. The right return has a C18 shop window with 18-pane window and cornice, two 9/9-pane first-floor sashes and a single 6/6-pane sash. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron front area railings and gate with urn finials, and Pennant piers. Dowry Square was laid out by George 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. (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).

Listing NGR: ST5696872615

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Legacy System number:: 379524
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 157

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.