1-8, BATHWICK STREET

1-8, BATHWICK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394330
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:
1-8, BATHWICK STREET
Statutory Address:
1-8, BATHWICK STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394330
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
1-8, BATHWICK STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1-8, BATHWICK STREET

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1-8, BATHWICK 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 75498 65471

Details

BATHWICK STREET (North side)

Nos. 1-8 (Consec) 12/06/50

GV II

Terrace of eight houses on a site that slopes up slightly from No.1 to the left. c1790. By Thomas Baldwin, a part of the Bathwick Estate scheme. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roofs with dormers and stacks to some party walls. PLAN: Double depth. EXTERIOR: Three storeys; each house is one window wide. Coped parapet, lintel frieze, second floor sill course, ground floor cornice and plinth, swept up from Nos. 1 and 3. Plate glass tripartite sash windows; those to the first floor, with raised surrounds rising from the ground floor cornice, are spanned by pediments on four consoles, those flanking the central sashes have double festoons to the friezes. Semicircular arches over fanlights to six panel doors, and three rusticated courses below the ground floor sills. No.1 has a lowered first floor sill and a cobweb fanlight to a six panel door to the left. No.2 has lowered sills and a trellised balconette to the first floor and a plain fanlight to a six panel door to the right. No.3 has lowered sills to the first floor and a plain fanlight to a six panel door to the left. Nos. 4 and 5, a symmetrical pair, retain original first floor sills and have plain fanlights to paired six panel doors. Nos. 6 and 7 are similar to Nos. 4 and 5, though No.7 has a low first floor balconette with a lyre to the centre and a C20 door. No. 8 is similar to No. 6 with a blocked door to the right. The three window right return has been rebuilt, a late C19 enclosed porch to the centre has a returned coped parapet and cornice and a bolection-moulded six panel door. INTERIORS: Not inspected. SOURCES: Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 85; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 168.

Listing NGR: ST7549865471

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
509742
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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