NUMBER 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS

NUMBER 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, DOWRY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202209
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, DOWRY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1202209
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, 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 7 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT WALLS AND PIERS, 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 57004 72667

Details

BRISTOL

ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/14/1424 (North side) 08/01/59 No.7 and attached front basement walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.7)

GV II*

Attached house. c1725. By George Tully. Stucco over brick, brick party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. Part of a terrace of 3 houses articulated by rusticated pilaster strips, with moulded ground- and first-floor bands and a moulded coping. A right-hand doorway has fluted Ionic pilasters, entablature and segmental broken pediment, 3-pane overlight and 6-panel door. Lintels with 5 rusticated voussoirs to 4/4-pane sashes in flush frames, and a slate hipped dormer. INTERIOR: entrance hall divided by a semicircular keyed arch from a rear dogleg stair with uncut string, column balusters and square newels; 2-panel doors, panelled shutters and fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area walls, capped piers and wrought-iron railings. 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).

Listing NGR: ST5700472667

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Legacy System number:: 379530
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 105

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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.