NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS

NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, 10, DOWRY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280221
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, 10, DOWRY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280221
Date first listed:: 08-Jan-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, 10, 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 10 AND ATTACHED BASEMENT AREA RAILINGS AND PIERS, 10, 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 57029 72656

Details

BRISTOL

ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/14/1427 (North side) 08/01/59 No.10 and attached basement area railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.10)

GV II*

Attached house. c1746. By George Tully. Built by Richard Matthews. Limestone ashlar and render over brick, brick gable and party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, basement and attic; 4-window range. Part of an attached pair with a rusticated ground floor, moulded ground- and first-floor bands and a moulded coping. A good doorway set between the outer windows, a centrally place window to the right, has fluted Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze, segmental pediment and a 6-panel door. Segmental-arched windows have keyed architraves with sill blocks to 6/6-pane sashes; 2 hipped dormers. INTERIOR: entrance hall with a good open-well stair, panelled doors and shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached entrance walls, capped piers and wrought-iron basement area railings. Dowry Square was laid in 1720 by Tully and building continued until 1750. The sides had brick 5-window central houses and 3-window flanking ones, most now rendered and altered. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 205; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).

Listing NGR: ST5702972656

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Legacy System number:: 379533
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 205
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.