Devonshire Lodge

DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 4, BATHWICK HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394186
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Devonshire Lodge
Statutory Address:
DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 4, BATHWICK HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394186
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Devonshire Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 4, BATHWICK HILL

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DEVONSHIRE LODGE, 4, BATHWICK HILL

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 76017 64721

Details

BATHWICK HILL (South side) No. 4 Devonshire Lodge 11/08/72

GV II

Detached house. c1825. Probably by John Pinch. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with moulded stacks to sides. PLAN: Double depth with a small single storey wing to the right. EXTERIOR: Two storeys with attic and lower ground floor; symmetrical three window front. Returned coped cornice, parapet, frieze and first floor sill band; six/six pane sash windows, those to the ground floor, set in painted semicircular arched recesses, have balconettes. The centre of the parapet sweeps up to the centre with stone paterae and scrolls flanking the centre over an open balustraded panel. The elaborate painted stone doorcase, with highly characteristic late Georgian ornament, has a cornice, with foliate scroll carving to the frieze, Composite capitals (with grape and vine leaf enrichment) to plain pilasters, a semicircular arched recess over a five panel door with a large ornamental circular panel to the centre. To the centre of the rear garden front is a full height segmental bay with a high parapet and louvred shutters to the windows. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: A fine late Georgian villa forming part of the upward development of Bathwick Hill. The date is taken from the conveyance from the Earl of Pulteney¿s estate. The drawings for this and other houses close by came from the Darlington Estate Office, to which Pinch was surveyor. SOURCES: `Beyond Mr Pulteney¿s Bridge¿ (Bath Preservation Trust exhib. Cat. 1987), 47, where the original elevation design is reproduced; Robert Bennett, `The Last of the Georgian Architects of Bath¿, Bath History IX (2002), 100].

Listing NGR: ST7601764721

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Legacy System number:
509588
Legacy System:
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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.

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