Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553164

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)