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Number 7 and Attached Front Basement Walls and Piers

A Grade II* Listed Building in Clifton, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4513 / 51°27'4"N

Longitude: -2.6201 / 2°37'12"W

OS Eastings: 357004

OS Northings: 172667

OS Grid: ST570726

Mapcode National: GBR C2L.GL

Mapcode Global: VH88M.JSP8

Plus Code: 9C3VF92H+GW

Entry Name: Number 7 and Attached Front Basement Walls and Piers

Listing Date: 8 January 1959

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1202209

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379530

ID on this website: 101202209

Location: Hotwells, Bristol, BS8

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Clifton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Clifton Holy Trinity with St Andrew the Less and St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



BRISTOL

ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells
901-1/14/1424 (North side)
08/01/59 No.7
and attached front basement walls
and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
DOWRY SQUARE
No.7)

GV II*

Attached house. c1725. By George Tully. Stucco over brick,
brick party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile roof.
Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and
basement; 3-window range.
Part of a terrace of 3 houses articulated by rusticated
pilaster strips, with moulded ground- and first-floor bands
and a moulded coping. A right-hand doorway has fluted Ionic
pilasters, entablature and segmental broken pediment, 3-pane
overlight and 6-panel door. Lintels with 5 rusticated
voussoirs to 4/4-pane sashes in flush frames, and a slate
hipped dormer.
INTERIOR: entrance hall divided by a semicircular keyed arch
from a rear dogleg stair with uncut string, column balusters
and square newels; 2-panel doors, panelled shutters and
fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area
walls, capped piers and wrought-iron 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).


Listing NGR: ST5700472667

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