Number 9 And Attached Front Basement Walls And Piers

Number 9 Dowry Square is an attached house, built around 1725 by George Tully. It is of high group value, demonstrating exceptional architectural and historical significance. The house is constructed of limestone ashlar and render, with brick gable and party wall stacks, and a slate double-pile roof. Its double-depth plan reflects an Early Georgian design, exhibiting three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a five-window front. The symmetrical facade includes a banded ground floor, rusticated pilaster strips, ground- and first-floor strings, and a moulded coping. A prominent doorway features fluted Ionic pilasters, entablature blocks, a broken segmental pediment, a three-pane overlight, and a six-panel door with the top four panels raised. The windows are six-pane sashes in flush frames, with lintels featuring five rusticated voussoirs. There are three slate-hipped dormers and a square, slate-hung ridge lantern. The rear elevation is roughcast and has full-height closet blocks with pyramidal roofs, three hipped dormers, and Pennant rubble drips over the windows.

Inside, the entrance hall is panelled and divided by a panelled elliptical arch leading to a rear, open-well staircase. This staircase has three column-on-vase balusters per tread, with the central one twisted, a ramped and moulded rail, a wide curtail, and ramped wainscot. The interior also includes eared fire surrounds, panelled overmantels with semicircular-arched side niches, four-panel doors, cornices, and panelled shutters.

Attached to the front are basement area walls and piers with brackets and wrought-iron railings. Dowry Square was laid out by Tully in 1720, and building continued until 1750. The square’s design originally featured a five-window middle house and outer three-window houses, constructed of brick and later altered and mostly rendered, showcasing various designs.