SUNNYLANDS AND WEST LAWN

SUNNYLANDS AND WEST LAWN, 49 AND 51, AUDLEY PARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394153
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: SUNNYLANDS AND WEST LAWN
Statutory Address:: SUNNYLANDS AND WEST LAWN, 49 AND 51, AUDLEY PARK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394153
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: SUNNYLANDS AND WEST LAWN
Statutory Address 1:: SUNNYLANDS AND WEST LAWN, 49 AND 51, AUDLEY PARK ROAD

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:: SUNNYLANDS AND WEST LAWN, 49 AND 51, AUDLEY PARK 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 73509 65487

Details

AUDLEY PARK ROAD

Nos. 49 and 51 Sunnylands and West Lawn (Formerly Listed as: AUDLEY PARK ROAD Sunnylands and West Lawn) 05/08/75 II

Detached house, now divided in two. 1860. By James Wilson, altered 1865 by Wilson and Willcox (deed of 1865, owner), divided into two properties in 1962 (owner). MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Rectangular block with projecting south wing containing principal rooms. STYLE: Italianate style. EXTERIOR: Two storeys with three storeys in part, and basement, partially full storey due to falling ground. Finely built ashlar with plat and sill bands at each floor level. All windows have plate glass sashes. Sunnylands: Full height canted bay to south wing, window with keyed head in each face of first and second floor ones. Attic window has lunette head. Deeply projecting eaves above. Tall ashlar stack to right. Projecting porch, door with fanlight, flanked by narrow arched windows, modillion cornice and parapet pierced by roundels. Secondary modern iron and glass porch projecting again. Above, single window with keyed head and bell-cast `castle' roof on bracketed cornice. West lawn: secondary wing of house and only two storeys. Paired and plain sashes. Added conservatory to right, entrance to house. Principal feature; belvedere tower rising two storeys above roof. First square, octagonal with continuous sill and arched light each face and joined impost bands. Deep bracketed eaves and conical roof with weathervane. INTERIOR: Sunnylands now has all the principal rooms and staircase with elaborate cast iron balustrade and mahogany handrail. Rooms are mainly unaltered but without special features. Other floors and interior of West Lawn not inspected. HISTORY: An elaborate and little altered villa by James Wilson, providing a good example of affluent suburban Bath houses of the 1860s.

Listing NGR: ST7350965487

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Legacy System number:: 509549
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.