Beckford's Gate
BECKFORD'S GATE, LANSDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394132
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Beckford's Gate
- Statutory Address:
- BECKFORD'S GATE, LANSDOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394132
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Beckford's Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- BECKFORD'S GATE, LANSDOWN ROAD
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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:
- BECKFORD'S GATE, LANSDOWN ROAD
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 74651 66193
Details
LANSDOWN ROAD (West side) Beckford's Gate 11/08/72
GV II
Gateway to the north end of Beckford's Ride, at the former entrance to Beckford's Tower (qv). c1826. Possibly by HE Goodridge. Rectangular plan. Castellated style. Limestone ashlar. Approx 10m high and 5m wide, the coped battlements have a heavy roll-moulded string course over the machicolation; offset angle buttresses with similar strings over splayed bases flank a semicircular recess approx 4m high over set back similar recess and a roll-moulded arris to a plank-and-studded door with ornate strap hinges. Above the door is a triple-recessed panel with a carved Beckford Arms. An ivy-covered block to the rear approx 5m high has offset buttresses with a C20 metal fire escape above. Squared rubblestone walls approx 4m high project at right-angles with rebates to splayed semicircular arches, that to the left has a segmental-arched top to a gate with long/short railings, no gate to the right. HISTORY: The gate originally gave access to Beckford's Ride leaving his gardens above Lansdown Crescent into open land on the way up towards his tower (qv) a mile and a half away. It thus forms a literal gateway to a remarkable private domain, and is a remarkable garden structure designed in a characteristically singular idiom. SOURCES: (The Connoisseur, April 1976, 251; Jackson N: Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture: Bath: 1991-: 89-95).
Listing NGR: ST7465166193
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509522
- 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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