Hotwells - BS3
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Hotwells - BS3
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 2 Aug 2012
A row of elegant Georgian houses on one side of the central grassed garden in Dowry Square with Hotwell Road (A4) in the distance. In 1480 Wm. Worcester described the Hotwell spring waters as being "milky and as warm as those at Bath" and in 1692 the Society of Merchant Venturers leased out the springs and a pump room was built (elsewhere) in Hotwells. Thus Hotwells attempted to compete with Bath as a spa resort and elegant residences such as these were built to receive well-heeled gentry seeking cures. Dowry Square was laid out from 1721 by Messrs Thomas Oldfield & George Tully, a Quaker architect and carpenter. It is a three sided square open at the south end, each side boasting a five-bay centre house flanked by smaller, mostly three-bay, houses. A brass plaque on the wall of the nearest house declares it to be "Clifton Dispensary", although no further information concerning this was available.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.450832
Longitude
-2.620048