Chapel Row And Attached Front Area Walls And Piers

BRISTOL

ST5672NE HOTWELL ROAD, Hotwells 901-1/13/1440 (South East side) 08/01/59 No.262 Chapel Row and attached front area walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: HOTWELL ROAD (North side) No.262 Chapel Row)

GV II*

Attached house. 1725-27. By George Tully. Red brick with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile double-depth roof half-hipped to the right. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 3 storeys, attic and basement; 5-window range. A symmetrical front has rusticated pilaster strips to a moulded coping, with moulded strings to each floor running over the pilasters. The doorway has scrolled brackets to a segmental dentil pediment, a moulded frame, timber fret fanlight and C20 8-panel door. Lintels with rusticated voussoirs and keys carved with grotesque masks to 6/6-pane sashes in flush frames, taller on the first floor; 2 hipped dormers. The right return has 1-window range, a small canted 16-pane C20 bay, and 9/9-pane sashes above; the rear elevation has irregular fenestration, and 3 hipped dormers. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached front area ramped brick walls and capped piers. Part of the Dowry Square development laid out by Tully from 1720. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 103; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bristol: Bath: 1952-: 157).

Listing NGR: ST5696072604