NUMBER 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: NUMBER 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS
List entry Number: 1202211
Location
NUMBER 13 AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, DOWRY SQUARE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: City of Bristol
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment: 30-Dec-1994
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 379536
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History
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Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells
901-1/14/1430 (East side)
08/01/59 No.13
and attached front area railings
(Formerly Listed as:
DOWRY SQUARE
No.13)
GV II
3 attached houses and dispensary, now one office. Dated 1823.
Limestone ashlar, with pantile roof. Double-depth plan. 2
storeys and basement; 5-window range.
A symmetrical front has end rusticated pilaster strips to a
deep moulded cornice and parapet, with a raised central panel
inscribed CLIFTON DISPENSARY/1823. A good raised Roman Doric
porch has curved Pennant steps at each side, entablature and
parapet, to a wide semicircular-arched doorway with reeded
architrave, fanlight and margin lights, and 6-panel door;
doorways at either end have pilaster jambs and moulded
lintels, plate-glass overlights and 6-panel doors. Tripartite
windows have pilaster jambs to moulded lintels, plain on the
basement, with 6/6-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: entrance hall to an axial passage, rear central
stair flight with a quarter landing, stick balusters, column
newels, ramped wreathed rail and curtail; right-hand stair
removed. Reeded architraves with roundels, marble fire
surrounds with roundels and good cast-iron fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought-iron front basement area
and porch railings with urn finials.
The first use of tripartite windows in Bristol, a
characteristic feature of later villa and terrace designs in
the city, and the work of '...an architect of experience and
learning' (Gomme).
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 230).
Listing NGR: ST5702972625
Selected Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 230
National Grid Reference: ST 57029 72625
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