NOS. 2-5 (CONSEC) WITH RAILINGS

NOS. 2-5 (CONSEC) WITH RAILINGS, 2-5, BEAUFORD SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394370
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: NOS. 2-5 (CONSEC) WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NOS. 2-5 (CONSEC) WITH RAILINGS, 2-5, BEAUFORD SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394370
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NOS. 2-5 (CONSEC) WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 2-5 (CONSEC) WITH RAILINGS, 2-5, BEAUFORD SQUARE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NOS. 2-5 (CONSEC) WITH RAILINGS, 2-5, BEAUFORD SQUARE

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 74847 64870

Details

BEAUFORD SQUARE (East side) Nos. 2-5 (Consec) with railings 12/06/50

GV II

Former terrace of four houses, now incorporated into late C20 commercial premises fronting Barton Street. c1730, by John Strahan, Nos. 2-4 rebuilt 1963-1964, by EM Tew. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, attic and basement, total nine windows, all sashes. The high mansard roof has eight C20 raking dormers, and the lower floors have eighteen pane with thick bars and square panes in a moulded and eared architrave, at ground floor also with cornice hood on a pulvinated frieze, with twelve pane sash to basements. Bays one, four and seven have six panel fielded doors under three pane transom lights in architraves and with segmental pediments on fluted pilasters with consoles. There is a full entablature with triglyph frieze. The return to the left, with entrance to No.2, has two bays detailed as to the front. There are no stacks. INTERIORS: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The basement areas are enclosed by cast iron railings on a stone curb, returned at the doorways to a stone landing bridging the areas. HISTORY: These fine town houses with careful early C18 detail, were built as part of the development by Strahan, laid out in 1727 as BEAUFORT Square. They constitute a notable attempt to create an architecturally coherent square in a style different to that of John Wood, and form an important episode in the growth of Bath, as well as possessing great group value with the Theatre Royal. The rebuilding in facsimile reinstates the integrity of the square. SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948-), 133.

Listing NGR: ST7484764870

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Legacy System number:: 509776
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.