Nos 7 and 8 Including Pintle For Abbeygate
NOS 7 TO 8 INCLUDING PINTLE FOR ABBEYGATE, 7 AND 8, ABBEYGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394080
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 7 and 8 Including Pintle For Abbeygate
- Statutory Address:
- NOS 7 TO 8 INCLUDING PINTLE FOR ABBEYGATE, 7 AND 8, ABBEYGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394080
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Nos 7 and 8 Including Pintle For Abbeygate
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOS 7 TO 8 INCLUDING PINTLE FOR ABBEYGATE, 7 AND 8, ABBEYGATE 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:
- NOS 7 TO 8 INCLUDING PINTLE FOR ABBEYGATE, 7 AND 8, ABBEYGATE 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:
- ST7512864640
Details
ABBEYGATE STREET
No 7 and 8, including pintle for Abbeygate
05/08/75
GV II
House, now fish and chip restaurant. c1810.
MATERIALS: Limestone, rendered and painted with Welsh slate, and pantile roof.
PLAN: Double depth plan with C20 extensions.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics, and cellar, three windows wide above modern ground floor shop front, with large plate glass windows. First floor sill band, moulded cornice, parapet. Three windows to upper floors, six/six sashes in moulded architrave surrounds, round headed on first floor with radiused glazing bars to sashes. Mansard roof with slate lower slope and pantile upper, three flat topped dormers with six/six sashes, end stone stacks with pots. Elevation to Abbey Green in corner between Nos.4 and 5. Painted stone, with pantile roof. Two storeys. Narrow ground floor with door architrave now converted to window, six/three. First floor has six/six sash to left and blind window recess to right. Cornice, parapet.
ADDITIONAL FEATURE: Included on the left of the elevation is a large iron pintle which is reputed to be, and was previously listed as, one of the pintles from the medieval Abbey gate which was across Abbeygate Street at right angles to the present arch (Gateway demolished 1744 pintle then fixed to No.7 Abbeygate Street), and was resited when Marks and Spencer was built in 1973. Rear elevation of main building largely hidden by C20 extensions with steel windows.
INTERIOR: Of restaurant entirely modernized, otherwise not seen.
HISTORY: This house was the `Freemasons Arms', c1820-1911. It was the landlord of this pub who proposed to purchase Lansdown Tower after Beckford's death (Lansdown Road qv) for use as a pleasure garden. This prompted Beckford's daughter to buy the property back and present it to the Rector of Walcot for use as a cemetery and chapel, and to enable her father to be buried there.
SOURCES: E. Holland, `The Kingston Estate within the walled City of Bath' (1992).
Listing NGR: ST7510864645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509467
- 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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