13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394005
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394005
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 13, 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 75070 64782
Details
ABBEY CHURCH YARD (North side) 12/06/50
No.13
GV II
House with shop. Early C18, refronted and heightened in early C19. MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar, rendered and painted, roof not visible. PLAN: Single depth, narrow frontage house, back-to-back with No. 16 Cheap Street (qv) EXTERIOR: Four storeys, the attic storey being full height. The ground floor has a four bay c1820-1830 shopfront in the manner of Sir John Soane, three bays of plate glass windows with double entrance door, each with single panel, to right. The bays are separated by panelled stone pilasters with acroterion caps, frieze panel and decorative wrought iron balcony above. The first floor has two twelve-pane sash windows over shop and a third in the narrow bay over the entrance to right. The top two floors both have a single tripartite sash window, four:six:four-panes over four:six:four. The upper floors do not have the additional narrow bay to right. Cornice bands between floors and to parapet, ashlar end stacks with pots INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: An integral part of the city¿s centre, this is recorded as having been the house of Charles Bave MD in 1713 (re Meecham), and was later the Grand Pump Room Library and bookshop (re Kelly's Directory).
Listing NGR: ST7507064781
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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