Number 8 And Attached Front Basement Walls And Piers

Number 8 is a house dating from circa 1725, constructed by George Tully as part of a terrace in Dowry Square, Hotwells. The house is built of stucco over brick, with brick stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. It has a double-depth plan and is of Early Georgian style, with three storeys, an attic, and a basement, and a three-window front. The terrace comprises three houses, articulated by rusticated pilaster strips, with moulded ground- and first-floor bands and a moulded coping. A doorway on the right-hand side features carved brackets supporting a semicircular-arched shell hood, originally from St James's Square, above a three-pane overlight and a six-panel door. The windows are 4/4-pane sashes in flush frames, with lintels featuring five rusticated voussoirs. A slate hipped dormer lights the attic. The interior has not been inspected. Attached to the front are basement walls with capped piers and wrought-iron railings. Dowry Square was laid out by Tully in 1720, with building continuing until 1750. This part of the square originally comprised a central five-window house flanked by outer three-window houses, all of brick, which have since been altered and mostly rendered.