1-5, ARGYLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394146
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 1-5, ARGYLE STREET
Statutory Address:: 1-5, ARGYLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394146
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 1-5, ARGYLE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1-5, ARGYLE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-5, ARGYLE 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 75213 64983

Details

ARGYLE STREET (North side)

Nos. 1-5 (Consec) (Formerly Listed as: ARGYLE STREET (North side) Nos.1-7 (Consec)) 12/06/50

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Shops with accommodation over, forming a symmetrical terrace between Pulteney Bridge and Grove Street and the Great Pulteney Street development. c1789 with C19 and C20 alterations. By Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar, part painted, with Welsh slate roofs. PLAN: Double depth. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics and basement storeys, fifteen bays in all, three to each house, articulated three:nine:three. Endmost houses break forward and are taller, forming flanking pavilions. Central window with semicircular head and decorated entablature. The additional height is in this first floor room. Sash windows in plain reveals, all late C19 glass, except for No. 5 which has restored late C18 type sashes, six/nine on first floor and six/six above. All the first floor windows have dropped sills, as do the second floor ones of No. 5. Second floor sill band, broken to No.5. Ground floor shopfronts all C20, Nos.1 and 5 have projecting `character' ones, of which the double fronted one to No.1 is the best. No.1 has an 1889 surround by Browne and Gill with later alterations; No.2 has a 1919 one by Wills and Sons; No.3 has a 1925 one by FJ Amery and Son; No.5 has half of a mid C19 one extended in modern times by James Elliot. None of the original house doorways survive, see Nos. 8-17 (qv) opposite. Cornice, parapet, mansard roof with paired flat topped dormer to each house, plate glass sashes, stone stacks, with pots to Nos. 4 and 5 only. No.1 has a return elevation to the north side of Pulteney Bridge, rubble with random windows of various periods. No.5 has a return elevation to Grove Street, ashlar, plain doorway, first floor platband, randomly placed six/six sashes, parapet with band. Rear elevations are rubble with ashlar dressings except No.5 which is ashlar, painted to lower ground floor. No.1 has a visually important rear elevation with a triple window to each floor, and a paired dormer, all plate glass sashes. Various extensions and sash windows to others; all with restored glazing bars to No.5, which is important visually over the through way of Spring Gardens Road. This through way may originally have been a waterway or mill leat, as old maps suggest. INTERIORS: not inspected. HISTORY: Argyle Street, first Argyle Buildings, was the extension of the line of Adam's Pulteney Bridge (qv) into Sir William Pulteney's Bathwick estate. The estate passed to his daughter Henrietta Laura in 1792, but building work had already begun on Laura Place in 1788. This terrace, with its southern opposite number, forms a monumental extension northwards from Robert Adam¿s Pulteney Bridge. No.1 was the offices of the Bath Argus in 1906. No. 5 was T Gibbons' circulating library in the C19, and became George Gregory, Bookseller in 1906 (see remaining painted sign on north return elevation). SOURCES: Graham Finch, Shop front Record (Bath City Council 1992).

Listing NGR: ST7521364983

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Legacy System number:: 509540
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.