Dowry Square is in the Hotwells

Hotwells

Hotwells is a district of the English port city of Bristol. It is located to the south of and below the high ground of Clifton, and directly to the north of the Floating Harbour. The southern entrance to the Avon Gorge, which connects those docks to the sea, lies at the western end of Hotwells. The...

 area of Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

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It was laid out in 1727 by George Tully and building continued until 1750. The houses are three-storeyed with attics, simply detailed and with channelled pilasters to the party walls.

In 1799 Dr Thomas Beddoes

Thomas Beddoes

Thomas Beddoes , English physician and scientific writer, was born at Shifnal in Shropshire. He was a reforming practitioner and teacher of medicine, and an associate of leading scientific figures. Beddoes was a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and, according to E. S...

 opened a laboratory in Dowry Square as the Pneumatic Institution

Pneumatic Institution

The Pneumatic Institution was a medical research facility in Bristol, England, in 1799–1802. It was established by physician and science writer Thomas Beddoes to study the medical effects of the gases that had recently been discovered...

where he worked with Sir Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine...

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Architecture

Many of the buildings have been designated by English Heritage

English Heritage

English Heritage . is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...

 as grade II* or II listed buildings.

• No 1 (grade II)
• No 2 (grade II)
• No 3 (grade II)
• No 4 (grade II*)
• No 5 (grade II)
• No 6 (grade II*)
• No 8 (grade II)
• No 9 (grade II*)
• No 7 (grade II*)
• No 10 (grade II*)
• No 11 (grade II*)
• No 12 (grade II*)
• No 13 (grade II)
• Nos 14&15 (grade II)
• No 16 York House (grade II)
• K6 Telephone Kiosk (grade II)
• Plinth and railings around Dowry Square gardens (grade II)