Dowry Parade
DOWRY PARADE, 297, HOTWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292997
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Dowry Parade
- Statutory Address:
- DOWRY PARADE, 297, HOTWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292997
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Dowry Parade
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWRY PARADE, 297, HOTWELL ROAD
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:
- DOWRY PARADE, 297, HOTWELL ROAD
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 56984 72535
Details
BRISTOL
ST5672NE HOTWELL ROAD, Hotwells 901-1/13/1448 (South East side) 08/01/59 No.297 Dowry Parade
GV II
Attached house. 1763-4. Built by Benjamin Probert and Robert Comfort, in the style of Thomas Paty. Red brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile double-depth roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 2-window range. Articulated by rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping. Left-hand doorway has a bracketed pediment to a Gibbs suround with split key and separate angled voussoirs, rectangular overlight with oval metal glazing bars and a 6-panel door. Windows, set to the right of the entrance, have 5 stepped voussoirs to 2/2-pane ground-floor sashes in flush frames, 6/6-panes above, with thick glazing bars on the second floor, and a hipped dormer. Steps down to open basement areas, and arched cellars beneath the deep flagged pavement. The rear elevation has a semicircular-arched stair light. INTERIOR not inspected. Various speculative builders were involved using designs similar to those employed by Thomas Paty. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 202; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 202).
Listing NGR: ST5698472535
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 202
Ison, W, The Georgian Buildings of Bristol, (1952), 202
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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