Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers
NUMBER 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 4, DOWRY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202206
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 4, DOWRY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1202206
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 4, DOWRY SQUARE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 4 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 4, 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 56980 72642
Details
BRISTOL
ST5672NE DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/13/1421 (West side) 08/01/59 No.4 and attached front basement railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.4)
GV II*
Attached house. 1748. Probably by Thomas Paty. Brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping and parapet, and rusticated quoins to the pedimented middle section which breaks forward. The doorway has a mid C19 porch of fluted columns on octagonal Pennant plinths with acanthus capitals to an entablature and dentil cornice, 2-panel door with roundels and margin and overlights. Cambered heads with 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes; 3 hipped dormers. INTERIOR: mid C19 decorative scheme, with an entrance hall divided by flat arch with guilloche and Greek key panels and cornices, doorways with cornices and 2-panel doors and panelled shutters, with a rear mid C20 stair. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached mid C19 cast-iron spike-headed railings with foliate decoration, and capped 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. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 105; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).
Listing NGR: ST5698072642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 105
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 157
Legal
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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