8-13, ALFRED STREET
8-13, ALFRED STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394111
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 8-13, ALFRED STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8-13, ALFRED STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394111
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 8-13, ALFRED STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8-13, ALFRED 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:
- 8-13, ALFRED 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 74885 65259
Details
ALFRED STREET (South side)
Nos. 8-13 (Consec) (Formerly Listed as: ALFRED STREET (South side) Nos. 8-15 (Consec)) 12/06/50
GV II
Includes: BARTLETT STREET, 8-15 Alfred Buildings.
Terrace of six houses, including restaurant. 1773-1775. Probably by John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar; double pitched half-hipped slate mansard roofs with dormers and moulded stacks to coped party walls. PLAN: Double depth. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics and basements; each house comprises a three-window front. A continuous coped parapet returns and rises over the gable ends; a continuous returned cornice, modillion to the front and ground floor platband; moulded architraves to the upper floors those to the first floor with cornices, lowered sills and splayed reveals; six/six-pane sash windows. Nos. 8 and 9 to the left have 1898 and 1902 shopfronts (see above, now a restaurant), with a continuous cornice to the fascia supported by paired panelled pilasters. No. 8 has set back central doors. No.10 has plate glass sash windows without horns to the first floor; c1890 leaded casement windows to the ground floor and an eight-panel door to the left, glazed to the top. No.11 is similar to No.10 with balconettes to the first floor. No.12 has two/two-pane sash windows to the second floor; plate glass sashes to the first and ground floors; splayed reveals to the ground floor; an eight-panel door to the right in a moulded architrave under a cornice on shaped consoles. No.13 is similar to No.12 with six/six-pane sash windows to the second floor. INTERIORS: Not inspected; ground floors much altered. HISTORY: Part of the northward expansion of Bath, associated with the building of the Assembly Rooms across the street. Nos. 8-12 were altered in 1898 for Evans and Owen, department store (closed 1974), which formerly had large projecting letters suspended from the front at second floor level; 1890's alterations by Browne and Gill; further alterations to No. 9 by Gill and Morris in 1902. SOURCES: Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (2nd ed. 1980), 156; Graham Finch, Shop front Record (Bath City Council 1992).
Listing NGR: ST7488565259
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509499
- 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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