26 Rivers Street and attached railings

26, Rivers Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394699
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 26 Rivers Street and attached railings
Statutory Address:: 26, Rivers Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394699
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 26 Rivers Street and attached railings
Statutory Address 1:: 26, Rivers Street

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:: 26, Rivers 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 74800 65449

Details

656-1/30/1399 RIVERS STREET (North side) No.26 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: RIVERS STREET (North side) No.16. Nos 17-31 (consec))

12/06/50

GV II Terrace house. 1770-1775 with C20 alterations. Part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar to front, rubble to plinth to basement, ashlar and rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front and rear, double Roman tiles to inner slopes, with coped party wall to left with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three six/six-sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices and moulded stone sills on console brackets, second floor has three six/six-sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has, to left, two six/six-sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to right a six-panel door with flush reeded, fielded and glazed panels with two pennant steps in pedimented Doric doorcase with incised numeral `26' (cut by Peter McLennan 1990), three steps to pennant paved crossover.

Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, unmoulded six-panel door under crossover, limestone area steps with wrought iron handrail. Double dormer with six/six-sashes in cyma moulded architraves. Band course over ground floor and modillion cornice and coped parapet continuous with No.27 Rivers Street (qv). Rear elevation has six/six-sashes including to double dormer, lead hopperhead at eaves to right and lead downpipe added 1987, single storey extension rebuilt 1987-1991, ashlar with pantile and pennant stone slate roof, nine-pane Back door from Brock Street.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought iron railings with shaped heads to rear and to front with matching gate on limestone bases.

HISTORY: Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger on three parcels of land: Nos. 1-11 constructed in conjunction with Catharine Place on ground conveyed on perpetual leasehold from Sir Benet Garrard to Wood and Brock as his trustee 19/20 December 1766. Nos. 16-28 and 36-47 Rivers Street with areas behind Nos. 46 and 47 on ground conveyed from Rivers Estate (owned by Sir Peter Rivers Gay) to Wood 5 March 1768 for 99 years. Nos. 28-35 Rivers Street were constructed in conjunction with Russell Street on ground bought by John Wood and Andrew Sproule as his trustee from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30 December 1768 on perpetual freehold rents. The strip of ground on which Nos 12-15 and 48-50 Rivers Street were constructed was probably never acquired by Wood. The sites of Nos. 12-15 were conveyed from the Rivers Estate to Thomas and James Beale on 30 December 1774 and 16 October 1776 on perpetual freehold rents.

A number of different Bath builders were responsible for implementing Wood's overall design, re Ison.

SOURCES: Building leases and rate books; Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (2nd ed. 1980), 233.

Listing NGR: ST7480065449

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 510102
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.