The Garden House With Attached Boundary Walls
THE GARDEN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1394120
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Garden House With Attached Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- THE GARDEN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1394120
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- The Garden House With Attached Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GARDEN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, CHURCH 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:
- THE GARDEN HOUSE WITH ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALLS, CHURCH 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 75988 63870
Details
CHURCH STREET Widcombe
(East side)
The Garden House with attached boundary walls 12/06/50
GV II*
Garden room. Mid C18, altered. Possibly designed by Richard Jones, but see below. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Small square garden building, formerly with open loggia to ground floor, with rooms above, built across boundary wall retaining south side to churchyard of Church of St Thomas(qv). EXTERIOR: Two storey. Main facade faces south, into gardens, and has at upper level twelve-pane sash to sill band, flanked by Ionic columns with pulvinated frieze, cornice, and high blocking course, above triple arched arcade containing two-light casements with arched lights, above ashlar breast walls, with moulded architraves, keystones, and imposts, with four unfluted Doric columns to full entablature, broken over columns, this arcading returned, complete with paired Doric columns, at each end in one bay, left return has former eighteen-pane sash, modified in lower sash, at first floor, to left, with blocked opening to right. Right return plain at upper level, and an C18 door in retaining wall to right. Small central stack, another to rear. Upper parts of rear of building appear in churchyard. East side plain, with full entablature including pulvinated frieze, at north-east corner attached cylindrical unit with stone slate conical roof, on rubble base, with grilled opening, and blind oculus to base. Rear wall, continuing right, has lofty central stack in coursed rubble with ashlar trim, with one offset. INTERIOR: Ground floor loggia has three fine ashlar arched niches to rear wall, stone fielded panelling between and to returns. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached on either side at mid-depth to pavilion high retaining walls in coursed stone, with coping, sloping steeply down to left and up to right, following slope of garden, forming boundary between church and garden. HISTORY: Ison includes drawing of possible original appearance of building. A mid C18 sketch by Thomas Robins of Widcombe Manor shows the building¿s original appearance, straddling the graveyard wall and forming part of the Widcombe Manor gardens; it was probably used as a banqueting house. Richard Jones in his often unreliable notebooks (Bath City Library) refers to `drawings of the other piece at Widcombe, done for one Squire Bennet, and his summer house in his garden'. SOURCES: (Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 111-112; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 126; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects. 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 475; M. Scott, Discovering Widcombe and Lyncombe, Bath (2nd ed 1993), 29-43). Listing NGR: ST7598863870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509511
- 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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