Lansdown Grove Hotel

LANSDOWN GROVE HOTEL, LANSDOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394462
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
Lansdown Grove Hotel
Statutory Address:
LANSDOWN GROVE HOTEL, LANSDOWN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1394462
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Lansdown Grove Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
LANSDOWN GROVE HOTEL, LANSDOWN ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
LANSDOWN GROVE HOTEL, LANSDOWN ROAD

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 74768 65805

Details

LANSDOWN ROAD (East side)

656-1/30/794 Lansdown Grove Hotel

05/08/75

GV II

House, 1770, enlarged as a hotel c1860, altered 1913, converted as a part of Bath High School 1995. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with moulded stacks to the front slope and three pedimented dormers to the centre. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Four storeys including an attic storey; symmetrical eleven-window front (including two three-window canted bays). Horned plate glass sash windows. Two full height canted bays to the outer ranges have panelled parapets and cornices, the cornices continue as an eaves cornice across the central ranges. Second-floor cornices to the bays and a lower modillion cornice to the centre. A first floor cornice spans the building. The three central ranges step slightly forward with a pediment and `LANSDOWN GROVE HOTEL' in raised letters, flat-arched recesses to the windows and a projecting porch (probably 1913) with a C20 door in a moulded architrave flanked by clasping Ionic pilasters supporting a pulvinated frieze and pediment. Two/two-pane sash windows to the first floors of the bays and a French window to the right hand bay. To the right is a 1913 (dated) single storey wing with a three-quarter circular room to the right. A panelled parapet is balustraded over the curved part. Ionic pilasters articulate windows in moulded architraves with keystones and curved plate glass panes. A terrace to the right has four Tuscan pilasters and C20 glazing. Set well back and on a high slope is a further late C19 block (not of architectural or historic interest). INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7476865805

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Legacy System number:
509862
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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