6, ARGYLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394147
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 6, ARGYLE STREET
Statutory Address:: 6, ARGYLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394147
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 6, ARGYLE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 6, 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:: 6, 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 75238 64997

Details

ARGYLE STREET (North side) No. 6 (Formerly Listed as: ARGYLE STREET (North side) Nos. 1-7 (Consec)) 12/06/50

GV II

Shop with accommodation over. c1789 with only C19 alterations. By Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Bath limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Double depth plan with later full height rear wing. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement storey, three windows wide. No. 6 matches No. 7 on either side of the slightly recessed Goodridge front of the Argyle Congregational Chapel, making a balanced terrace of nine bays, three:three:three, of similar character to the original wholly Baldwin design, except that the centre was then further recessed. Good mid C19 double fronted shop front, four fluted Corinthian columns support a deep entablature with iron balconette over. Plate glass windows, recessed central entrance. Windows above are all late C19 plain sashes. Pompeian scroll band at second floor level and sill band above, remains of painted inscription below second floor windows. Cornice, parapet, mansard roof with double flat topped dormer, ashlar stack with pots. Return elevation to Grove Street, ashlar, platband at first floor level, no windows. Rear elevation has full height late C19 wing in ashlar with plain sashes. Main elevation, rubble, one window to each floor and one dormer, all plain sashes. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Ground floor much altered. 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.

Listing NGR: ST7523864997

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Legacy System number:: 509542
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.