York House And Attached Front Area Railings

York House, located at No. 16 Dowry Square in Hotwells, Bristol, is an attached house that has been converted into an office. It dates from around 1780 and features a stucco exterior with limestone dressings, gable stacks, and a double-pile pantile roof. The building is designed in the mid-Georgian style and has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a symmetrical three-window front.

The façade showcases rusticated pilasters that extend through moulded strings to a moulded coping, although the first-floor string is missing. There are steps leading up to a wide doorway framed by attached Tuscan columns, a fluted entablature, and a cornice, with a plate-glass overlight above a two-leaf, two-panel door. The building also features 19th-century canted timber bays with three 6/6-pane sash windows. The upper floors have outer tripartite windows, with 8/8-pane sashes on the first floor and 6/6-pane sashes on the second floor, along with central 6/6-pane sashes that are taller on the first floor. There are four hipped dormers, each with 3/6-pane sashes.

On the right-hand side, there is a late 19th-century ashlar public house front with five panelled pilasters and foliate capitals flanking the left-hand and central doorways. This section includes two windows with tripartite frames and semicircular-arched panes below, along with panelled aprons and a dentil cornice. The property also features attached spear-headed wrought-iron bowed railings for the basement area and front entrance. The interior has not been inspected.