Dowry Parade And Attached Front Basement Area Railings And Piers

BRISTOL

ST5672NE HOTWELL ROAD, Hotwells 901-1/13/1449 (South East side) 08/01/59 No.299 Dowry Parade and attached front basement area railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: HOTWELL ROAD (South side) No.299 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 surround with split key and separate angled voussoirs, rectangular overlight with a lozenge-shaped metal fanlight and a 6-panel door. Windows, set to the right of the entrance, have 5 stepped voussoirs to 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames; hipped dormer. Steps down to open basement areas, and arched cellars beneath the deep flagged pavement. The rear elevation has full-height hipped projection and a semicircular-arched stair light. INTERIOR: entrance hall divided by a panelled pilasters to a semicircular arch, a rear dogleg stair with uncut string, column-on-vase balusters and column newels and a moulded rail; eared marble fire surround to ground floor, modillion cornices, 6-panel doors and panelled shutters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front basement area cast-iron railings and gates with urn finials. (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: ST5698172530