Number 7 And Attached Front Basement Walls And Piers

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