12-21, BATHWICK STREET
12-21, BATHWICK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394337
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 12-21, BATHWICK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12-21, BATHWICK STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394337
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 12-21, BATHWICK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12-21, BATHWICK STREET
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:
- 12-21, 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 75586 65406
Details
BATHWICK STREET (North side)
Nos. 12-21 (Consec) 12/06/50
GV II
Terrace of ten houses stepped slightly uphill in three groups from No.12 to the left. c1790. By Thomas Baldwin as a part of the Bathwick Estate scheme. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roofs with paired and triple dormers and moulded stacks to left party walls and gable ends. PLAN: Double depth. EXTERIOR: Three storeys attics and basements; each house has one wide tripartite window to each floor. Semicircular-arched openings and fanlights to six panel doors to the right, between Nos. 18 and 19 taller flat arches to paired entrances, a passage to the rear of No.18, and a door with one window above to No.19 which is two window range; (Nos. 18-21 are a group). Continuous coped parapets, cornices and friezes, second floor sill bands, ground floor cornices, banded rustication below the ground floor sills and a grand order of pilasters with tall foliate capitals flank each group. Plain architraves to the second and ground floor tripartite windows; four narrow pilasters with consoles rise from the ground floor cornice to flank the first floor windows, support dentil cornices and friezes with double-drop festoons and paterae to the sides and form plain aprons to the windows. No.12 has six/six pane sash windows to the attic and second floor and plate glass sashes to the rest, two radial glazing bars to the fanlight and a late C19 cast iron balcony to the first floor. No.13 has plate glass sash windows to the attic, six/six pane sashes to the rest, a blocked fanlight and an early C19 balcony to the first floor. No.14 has plate glass sash windows, a triple dormer and a plain fanlight. No.15 has six/six pane sash windows to the attic and ground floor (with horns) and plate glass sashes to the upper floors; early C19 balcony to the first floor; radial glazing bars to the fanlight a mid/late C19 six panel door with bolection-moulded panels. No.16 has six/six pane sash windows and a plain fanlight. No.17 is similar with a blocked fanlight. No.18 has plate glass sash windows and a plain fanlight under a flat-arched passage entrance to the right. No.19 two-window range, has a tall margin paned overlight over a door to the left and six/six pane sash windows. No.20 has plate glass sash windows to the attic, six/six pane sashes to the rest and a plain fanlight. No.21 has plate glass sash windows, margin panes and anthemion motifs to the fanlight, and roundels to the central panels of the door. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: Benjamin Barker, the `English Poussin', a noted landscape painter, exhibited from No.16 in 1800. SOURCES: Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 85; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980 ed), 168.
Listing NGR: ST7558665406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509745
- 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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