15, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
15, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1394013
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 15, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
- Statutory Address:
- 15, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1394013
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 15, ABBEY CHURCH YARD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, 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:
- 15, 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:
- ST7508764785
Details
12/06/50
ABBEY CHURCH YARD
(North side)
No.15
GV
II*
House, now with shop. c1720, altered and heightened probably early C19. Attributed to Thomas Greenway (Ison).
MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar with a painted ground floor.
PLAN: Single depth plan with central entrance and all windows on the front (south) elevation, back-to-back with No.14 Cheap Street (qv).
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with cellars and full height attic, five bays wide. Paired windows on either side of a central door, flattened arches with keystones, plate glass windows, four-panelled door. First and second floors have sash windows, four/four in architrave surrounds, the central window has an arched head. Pilasters to ends and to central feature, Doric to ground floor, Ionic to first with a pediment to centre, Corinthian to second with a segmental pediment. The attic has only three windows, four/four sashes, the outer ones are placed centrally over the pairs below. Cornice band, parapet, roof not visible, ashlar end stacks with pots.
INTERIOR: Of ground floor altered, not inspected above.
HISTORY: A notable early C18 house in the centre of Bath, forming an interesting contrast with its westerly neighbour which displays more polite tendencies in design. This may be the house claimed to have been built by the mason Richard Jones for Mr Harford in the Abbey Churchyard in about 1730.
The ground floor is probably original, but altered to form an arcaded shopfront in mid C19 (a late C18 drawing by Thomas Malton seems to show a double-bowed front).
SOURCES: Walter Ison, `The Georgian Buildings of Bath' (2nd ed. 1980; Graham Field, `Shopfront Record' (Bath City Council 1992-).
Listing NGR: ST7508764785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509405
- 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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