2-6, PIERREPONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1394387
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 2-6, PIERREPONT STREET
Statutory Address:: 2-6, PIERREPONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1394387
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 2-6, PIERREPONT STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 2-6, PIERREPONT STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: 2-6, PIERREPONT STREET

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District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 75254 64656

Details

PIERREPONT STREET 656-1/41/2433 (East side) Nos.2-6 (Consec) 12/06/50

GV II*

Houses, now in mixed use, including offices and meeting rooms. 1740-1745 with C20 additions. By John Wood the Elder, who describes "a row of fifth-rate houses of the grander sort". MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, painted ground floors to Nos 2, 3 and 5, with Welsh slate roofs. PLAN: Terrace of houses, conceived as whole, three:six:four:six:three, with ends and centre projecting forward slightly. four-bays at either end are found in No.7 North Parade and No.1 South Parade (qv), these five houses are remaining ten-bays, three:three:four:three:three. Double depth plan, Nos 3A and 4 (Century House) has had meeting room added behind in early C20. STYLE: Palladian style. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics and basements. Platband at first floor level. All windows are sashes, mostly altered, those on first floor have dropped sills, and cornice heads except for Nos 4 and 6. Wrought-iron area railings, Nos 3 and 5 each have two original six/six-sashes in the basement, others have plain sashes. Differing doorways. Modillion cornice, parapet, mansard roof, two flat topped dormers to each house, gabled to No.6, ashlar stacks, pots to Nos 2, 3 and 6. Wrought-iron area railings. Nos 2 and 3 have pediments on consoles over six-panel doors. First floor wrought iron balconies. Plain sashes to ground and first, six/six to second floor. Nos 3A and 4 have window reveals chamfered in late C19, all plain late C19 sashes. No.5 has pediment on consoles over panelled door, plain sashes, but two/two on second floor. No.6 doorway has lost its architraves and pediment, six-panel door with arched head and plain fan. Ground floor windows plain sashes, second floor windows have been altered and lost their cornices, now twelve-pane French casements, second floor windows six/six. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: James Quin, actor, died in No.4 in 1766 (plaque). Lord Chesterfield lived in 3A, 1738-1771. No.5 was birthplace of Elizabeth Ann Linley, see 1 Pierrepont place). No.2 stayed at by Nelson, 1780-1781. A part of the uncompleted John Wood scheme for the Duke of Kingston¿s estate on the Abbey Orchard, 1740-1748, creating a formal link from North to South Parade, parallel with Duke St, which was to have led out to Wood¿s epic-scaled (and never realised) plan for a `Royal Forum¿ to the south-east of the old city walls. The houses have undergone some alteration but remain an integral part of a major scheme of urban improvement. SOURCES: Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 138 AND 228; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 910; Mowl T and Earnshaw B: John Wood Architect of Obsession: Bath: 1988-: 135-147.

Listing NGR: ST7525464656

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Legacy System number:: 509794
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.