Number 11 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers
NUMBER 11 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 11, DOWRY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282299
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Number 11 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 11 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 11, DOWRY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282299
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Number 11 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 11 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 11, 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 11 AND ATTACHED FRONT BASEMENT RAILINGS AND PIERS, 11, 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 57038 72654
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/14/1428 (North side) 08/01/59 No.11 and attached front basement railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: DOWRY SQUARE No.11)
GV II*
Attached house. 1746. 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, attic and basement; 3-window range. One half of a pair with rusticated pilaster strips, moulded ground- and first-floor bands and a moulded coping. The doorway is placed symmetrically between 2 ground-floor windows, with fluted Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment, and 8-panel door. Windows with cambered heads and keyed architraves to 6/6-pane sashes, some with thick bars, and a single hipped dormer. The right-hand elevation has 5-window range of 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames and 3 slate-hung dormers. INTERIOR: a good interior, details include a large entrance hall divided by a panelled elliptical arch from a rear open-well stair with uncut string, column balusters and a ramped moulded rail. Fine first-floor right-hand room divided by a shallow arch with reeded and fluted jambs, rocaille fire surround with rope-moulded cast-iron baskets, 6- and 2-panel doors, cornices and panelled shutters; brick-paved basement has a niche with a tap, hood for hearth and fire surround and bread oven. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached walls, piers and wrought-iron basement area 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; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).
Listing NGR: ST5703872654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379534
- 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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