1 to 21, PARAGON
1-21, PARAGON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1394239
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 1 to 21, PARAGON
- Statutory Address:
- 1-21, PARAGON
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1394239
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 1 to 21, PARAGON
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-21, PARAGON
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.
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:
- 1-21, PARAGON
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 75062 65352
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 6 July 2017
656-1/31/1172
PARAGON
Nos.1-21 (Consec)
(Formerly Listed as: THE PARAGON Nos.1A AND 1-21 (Consec))
12/06/50
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Twenty-one terrace houses slightly concave uniform on site that level to front and falls steeply away to rear. 1768-1775 (plans approved 7 September 1768 Council Minutes) with C19 alterations. By Thomas Warr Atwood.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roofs each with two dormers and moulded stacks to party walls.
PLAN: Double depth plans.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics and basement to front, five storeys with attics to rear, each house has three window range. Continuous coped parapet, modillion cornice, ground floor platband and plinth, raised and fielded six panel doors (some altered to five panels) to right of each house in doorcases with Tuscan pilasters supporting entablature and pediment (some altered), formerly with six/six pane sash windows (now mostly plate glass to main floors) with splayed reveals, to upper floors in moulded architraves, first floors have lowered sills (leases which were renewed in c1870, all demand that first floor windows should be cut down, that they be glazed with British plate glass, and that surrounds be splayed), pediments over central windows flanked by windows with cornices. Terminals step slightly forward with stopped cornices, chamfered rustication with radial voussoirs and ground floor openings set in semicircular arched recesses.
No.1 to right has six/six pane sash windows to basement and door glazed to top.
No.2 has six/six pane sashes to basement.
No.3 has two/two pane sashes to basement.
No.4 has six/six pane sashes to basement, five panel door glazed to top with cast iron wreath knocker.
No.5 has boarded-up lower windows and door. Doorcase has open pediment supported by fluted pilasters.
No.6 boarded up, first floor windows have late C19 cast iron flower guards.
No.7 has six/six pane sash windows to basement and five panel door glazed to top. No.8 has two/two pane sash windows to basement, flower guards to left and centre of first floor.
No.9 has six/six pane sash windows, six/nine panes to first floor.
No.10 has six/six pane sash windows to basement, half-glazed four panel door and flower guards to first floor windows.
No.11 has six/six pane sashes to basement, six panel door glazed to top and balconettes to first floor windows.
No.12 has no horns to sash windows which are six/six, and six/nine panes to first floor, six panel door has glazed to top.
No.13 has six/six pane sashes to basement, trellised balconettes
to first floor and six panel door glazed to top.
No.14 has flower holders to first floor and five panel door glazed to top.
No.15 has six/six pane sashes to basement, flower holders to first floor and late C19 six panel door with ornamental corners to three vertical panels to top and base.
No.16 has six/six pane sashes to basement, and six panel door glazed to top with cast iron wreath knocker.
No.17 similar to No.16 without cast iron knocker.
No.18 similar to No.17 with five panel door.
No.19 has six/six pane sashes to basement, six panel glazed to top has inverted corners to upper central, pediment replaced by cornice, cut into platband above shallow hood on inverted pyramidal brackets.
No. 20 has six/six pane sashes to basement and six panel door glazed to top. This was the home and office of C.H. Basnett Architect 1813-1820 (Bath Directory).
No.21, left terminal and similar to No.1, named Gilbert Mullin's House, has all plate glass sash windows, six panel door glazed to top and `PARAGON BUILDINGS` carved into platband.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
HISTORY: This is reputed to be the first consciously designed and "crescent" of houses in Britain, but it does no more than follow the existing roadline. Nos 1-30 Royal Crescent (listed at Grade I) was designed earlier, but building began here first. In 1801, Jane Austen and her family stayed at No.1 with Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrott, her uncle and aunt. This followed Revd Austen’s retirement from the Church of St Nicholas in Steventon, Hampshire. From here the Austens carried out a search for a more permanent place to live in Bath and letters written by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra from this address describe in detail the places they considered.
Sources: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 152.
Listing NGR: ST7506265352
This Listing was enhanced in 2017 to mark the bicentenary of Jane Austen's death.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509643
- 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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