6-9, ABBEY CHURCH YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393988
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 6-9, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
Statutory Address:: 6-9, ABBEY CHURCH YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393988
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 6-9, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
Statutory Address 1:: 6-9, ABBEY CHURCH YARD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 6-9, ABBEY CHURCH YARD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 75038 64763

Details

ABBEY CHURCH YARD (North side) 12/06/50 Nos.6-9 (Consecutive) (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY CHURCH YARD Nos.6-10 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of shops with accommodation over, opposite the Pump Room. Late 1790's. By John Palmer. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. EXTERIOR: Terrace of four south-facing houses. Three storeys with attics and cellars, single depth plan, No.7 has rear extension. Main front has nine windows, one:two:three:two:one, the centre and ends being slightly advanced. Band at first floor level, at first and second floor sill level, Vitruvian scroll above first floor windows except for centre three bays. Cornice, parapet, shallow pediment over three central windows. Mansard roof. All windows are twelve pane sashes except for first floor windows of Nos.6 and 7 where the sill has been dropped and the sashes are now six/nine pane. Left return (No.6) has two windows and a blind recess on each floor. The right return (No.9) has four windows, the outer ones on narrow curved corner bays. Flat topped dormers, mostly small paned. Tall ashlar stacks, most with pots surviving. Nos.6 and 7 have Victorian shop fronts (No.7 is mid C19). No.8 has a larger double fronted shop front of high quality, dating from c.1830-40, rising up to first floor sill level, with ornamental cast iron undersill panels in the Greek Revival manner. No.9 has a six panel door with two glazed panels and fanlight over, plus modern plate glass windows with pram hood blinds, but these are set into an early C19 shop front, shown with the arched window heads in a print of 1817. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: This terrace was first designed by Thomas Baldwin in c1790, but rebuilding was delayed until after his financial fall in 1793 and it was subsequently carried out to a revised design. Part of the comprehensive remodelling of the centre of the city around the Pump Room at this time, this row included a number of prominent shops from the outset. SOURCES: Jane Root, `Thomas Baldwin¿, Bath History vol V (1994), 80-103; Graham Finch, `Shopfront Record¿, (Bath City Council 1992).

Listing NGR: ST7503864763

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Legacy System number:: 509343
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.