Number 6 and Attached Front Basement Walls 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. 2 related planning applications.
Number 6 and Attached Front Basement Walls and Piers
- WRENN ID
- north-pedestal-fog
- 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 6 and Attached Front Basement Walls and Piers, Dowry Square, BS8 4QL
- OS grid reference
- ST 569 726
- Coordinates
- 51.45135, -2.62027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 6 is an attached house located in Dowry Square, Hotwells, built around 1725 by George Tully. The building features stucco over brick, with brick gable and party wall stacks, and has a pantile double-pile roof. It is designed in the early Georgian style and consists of three storeys, an attic, and a basement, with a two-window range. This house is part of a terrace of three houses, characterized by rusticated pilaster strips, moulded bands at the ground and first floors, and a moulded coping. The central entrance wing extends across the corner of the square.
The right-hand doorway has a plain bracketed canopy, a three-pane overlight, and a six-panel door. The windows feature lintels with five rusticated voussoirs, with 4/4-pane sashes in flush frames, and 9/9 sashes on the ground floor left with fixed upper lights. There is a slate hipped dormer on the roof. The rear elevation has a five-window range with 4/4-pane sashes in exposed frames and three slate-hung dormers with 6/6-pane sashes.
Inside, there is a dogleg stair with square newels, a moulded pine handrail, and turned balusters. The left-hand ground-floor room is panelled and features a shell niche and a brown marble surround to the fireplace. The building also includes attached front basement area walls and piers. Dowry Square was laid out by Tully in 1720, with construction continuing until 1750. Originally, each side of the square had a five-window middle house and outer three-window houses, which have since been altered and mostly rendered in various designs. A plaque notes that Sir Humphrey Davy lived here from 1799 to 1801.
Local climate
Number 6 and Attached Front Basement Walls 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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