Number 3 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Gate

NUMBER 3 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND GATE, 3, DOWRY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202205
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:
Number 3 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Gate
Statutory Address:
NUMBER 3 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND GATE, 3, DOWRY SQUARE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1202205
Date first listed:
08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:
Number 3 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Gate
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBER 3 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND GATE, 3, DOWRY SQUARE

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBER 3 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND GATE, 3, 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 56977 72631

Details

BRISTOL

ST5672NE DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/13/1420 (West side) 08/01/59 No.3 and attached front basement railings and gate (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.3)

GV II

Attached house. 1822. Limestone ashlar, party wall stacks and a pantile roof. Double-depth plan. Neoclassical style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A composed front has banded ground-floor sections broken forward below a moulded band, and giant pilasters on the upper floors to an entablature and parapet. A left-hand doorway has a rectangular overlight and 6-panel door. Plain ground-floor windows, upper ones with incised surrounds, to 6/6-pane sashes, taller on the first floor; 2 hipped dormers. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron spear-headed basement area railings and gate with urn finials. 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 or replaced, to various designs.

Listing NGR: ST5697772631

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
379526
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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