Dowry Parade and Attached Front Walls and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. A Georgian House. 2 related planning applications.

Dowry Parade and Attached Front Walls and Piers

WRENN ID
distant-nave-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
House
Address
Dowry Parade and Attached Front Walls and Piers, 293 and 295, Hotwell Road, BS8 4NQ
OS grid reference
ST 569 725
Coordinates
51.45024, -2.62035
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A house, later divided into a pair of attached houses, built between 1763 and 1764. Around 1790, it was divided into two separate dwellings. Constructed by Benjamin Probert and Robert Comfort, it was designed in the style of Thomas Paty. The building is of red brick with limestone dressings, featuring large brick party wall stacks and a pantiled double-depth roof.

The house is arranged with a double-depth plan and is of mid-Georgian style, with three storeys, an attic, and a basement. It has a five-window front. The symmetrical front features rusticated pilaster strips rising to a moulded coping. The paired central doorways have raised ashlar surrounds with imposts and cornices, semicircular arches with plate-glass fanlights, and 20th-century doors. There are six stepped voussoirs to the 6/6-pane sash windows, set in flush frames. The left-hand windows have a raking profile, while the right-hand windows are hipped. The middle windows across the party wall are blocked. Steps lead to open basement areas, where arched cellars lie beneath a deep flagged pavement, formerly with railings.

The rear elevation has a projecting, full-height central hipped section across the party wall. The interior remains unexamined.

Attached to the property are brick walls and capped piers to the basement steps. The original doorcases, which included Gibbs surrounds and pediments, were replaced when the houses were divided. Several speculative builders contributed to the construction, utilizing designs similar to those used by Thomas Paty.

Local climate

Dowry Parade and Attached Front Walls and Piers receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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