York House And Attached Front Area Railings

BRISTOL

ST5772NW DOWRY SQUARE, Hotwells 901-1/14/1432 (East side) 04/03/77 No.16 York House and attached front area railings

GV II

Includes: No.260 HOTWELL ROAD Hotwells. Attached house, now office. c1780. Stucco with limestone dressings, gable stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has rusticated pilasters strips through moulded strings, missing from the first floor, to a moulded coping. Steps up to a wide doorway with attached Tuscan columns, fluted entablature blocks and a cornice, plate-glass overlight and 2-leaf 2-panel door. C19 canted timber bays have three 6/6-pane sashes, upper floors have outer tripartite windows with 8/8-pane first-floor and 6/6-pane second-floor sashes, and central 6/6-pane sashes, taller on the first floor; 4 hipped dormers with 3/6-pane sashes. The right-hand return has a late C19 ashlar public house front with 5 panelled pilasters and foliate capitals to left-hand and central doorways, 2 windows with tripartite frames and semicircular-arched panes below, panelled aprons and dentil cornice. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached spear-headed wrought-iron bowed basement area and front entrance railings. (Gomme A: Street Index of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest: 24).

Listing NGR: ST5701872599