ABBEY RECTORY

ABBEY RECTORY, 17 AND 17A, PARK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394264
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: ABBEY RECTORY
Statutory Address:: ABBEY RECTORY, 17 AND 17A, PARK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394264
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: ABBEY RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY RECTORY, 17 AND 17A, PARK LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ABBEY RECTORY, 17 AND 17A, PARK LANE

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 73714 65582

Details

PARK LANE 656-1/28/1181 (West side) Nos.17 AND 17A Abbey Rectory (Formerly Listed as: PARK LANE No.17) 05/08/75

GV II

Detached house, probably former rectory, now two dwellings. Dated 1849. Possibly designed by James Wilson. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate roofs with forward facing shaped gables and tall moulded stacks. PLAN: Double depth plan with service wing to right. STYLE: Jacobean style EXTERIOR: Two storeys with attics, almost symmetrical three-window range and three windows to right wing. Stop chamfered arrises to three-pane casement windows. Central range between gables has parapet of pierced diagonal quatrefoils with shield to centre and angel below moulded string course, two-light stone mullioned window to first floor over enclosed porch with moulded coping to stepped parapet, boars' head gargoyles and Tudor arch over two vertical panelled double doors. Central moulded string course rises to each side as triangles below elaborate parapeted gables with stone finials and over trefoil-headed attic windows. Stepped forward gable to left larger with square finial, trefoil-headed attic window and stone mullion and transom to two-light first floor window and to ground floor rectangular bay with further castellated two-light canted bay window. Gable to right has octagonal finial, horizontal glazing bars to trefoil-headed two/two-pane attic window, first floor sill course and two-light stone mullioned and transomed window to each lower floor. Lower right wing (No 17A) has castellated parapet over coved string course, sill course to three two/two-pane sash windows (paired to right) to first floor and similar paired windows to ground floor. Door in single storey lean-to to right. INTERIORS: Not inspected. SOURCES: Jackson N: Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture: Bath: 1991-: 204.

Listing NGR: ST7371465582

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 509667
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.