Harington House and Attached Railings
HARINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 3, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394073
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Harington House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HARINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 3, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394073
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Harington House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 3, ABBEY STREET
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:
- HARINGTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 3, ABBEY STREET
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 75093 64690
Details
ABBEY STREET (West side)
No. 3 Harington House and attached railings 12/06/50 GV II
House, now offices. Probably 1758-1760, altered c1794, and late C19, cleaned and restored 1994. MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Double depth. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics and basement, four windows wide. No quoin pilasters, but the whole front is set marginally forward at either side. Ground floor to left has doorway with sidelights in a Venetian type surround with Tuscan pilasters carrying entablature and central pediment; two windows to right. Basement has four six/six sashes. Platband at first floor level and sill band to first floor windows. All windows are late C19 plate glass sashes, in plain reveals. Modillion cornice, parapet, mansard roof with two flat topped dormers, six/six sashes, the right hand one is paired, rubble end stacks with pots. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Wrought iron area railings. HISTORY: The building plot was leased by Thomas Attwood in 1743, and his family retained control of the completed house, but it seems likely to have been built by Jelly as a part of the rebuilding of Abbey Street for the Duke of Kingston's Estate. The doorway looks late C18, however, and this may date from a refurbishment for a recorded letting in 1794. SOURCES: Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (2nd ed. 1980), 141; E. Holland, `The Kingston Estate within the walled City of Bath¿, (1992).
Listing NGR: ST7509364690
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509459
- 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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