Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers is a Grade II* listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1959. Attached house. 5 related planning applications.

Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers

WRENN ID
scarred-obsidian-aspen
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 January 1959
Type
Attached house
Address
Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings and Piers, Dowry Square, BS8 4SH
OS grid reference
ST 569 726
Coordinates
51.45112, -2.62049
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 4 is an attached house dating from 1748, likely designed by Thomas Paty. It is constructed of brick with limestone dressings, a brick party wall, stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. The design is typical of the mid-Georgian style, with a double-depth plan. The building is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a five-window front. The symmetrical facade features rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping and parapet, and rusticated quoins to the forward-projecting, pedimented central section. A mid-19th century porch of fluted columns on octagonal Pennant plinths with acanthus capitals, an entablature, and a dentil cornice shelters a two-panel door with roundels, margin lights and an overlight. The windows are 6/6-pane sashes with stepped voussoirs to their cambered heads; there are also three hipped dormers.

The interior displays a mid-19th century decorative scheme, featuring an entrance hall divided by a flat arch with guilloche and Greek key panels and cornices. Other details include doorways with cornices, two-panel doors, panelled shutters, and a mid-20th century staircase at the rear.

Attached to the front are mid-19th century cast-iron spike-headed railings with foliate decoration and capped piers. Dowry Square was laid out in 1720, with building continuing until 1750. The square originally featured a five-window middle house and outer three-window ones, constructed of brick and now largely altered and rendered with various designs.

Local climate

Number 4 and Attached Front Basement Railings 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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