RIVERS COTTAGE AND RIVERS STREET MEWS

RIVERS COTTAGE AND RIVERS STREET MEWS, RIVERS STREET MEWS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394725
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: RIVERS COTTAGE AND RIVERS STREET MEWS
Statutory Address:: RIVERS COTTAGE AND RIVERS STREET MEWS, RIVERS STREET MEWS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394725
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: RIVERS COTTAGE AND RIVERS STREET MEWS
Statutory Address 1:: RIVERS COTTAGE AND RIVERS STREET MEWS, RIVERS STREET MEWS

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RIVERS COTTAGE AND RIVERS STREET MEWS, RIVERS STREET MEWS

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 74707 65421

Details

RIVERS STREET MEWS 656-1/30/1423 (East side) 07/11/86 Rivers Cottage and Rivers Street Mews

GV II

Cottage and former stables (now garages) surrounding mews courtyard. Late C18/early C19 with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar and rubblestone walls, Pennant stone paving with late C19 high-fired black tiles to the centre gulley, double Roman tile roofs. EXTERIOR: Mostly two storeys. Rivers Street Cottage to left of entrance to courtyard has one window range. Roof, with two ridges, hipped to left over three-light casement window to first floor and plate glass sash window to ground floor. Right hand range gabled over five-panel door glazed to top. Attached to right return small single storey lean-to below eight/eight-pane sash window, to rear planked door. Garages Nos 9-11 (behind cottage) have three-light casement window to left and two six-pane windows to right clock and inverted semicircular arched bracket to former gas lamp. Below continuous row of C20 garage doors. Garages Nos 3,4 and 5 to right hand side of courtyard each have planked door to loading bay over C20 garage door. Lower range to rear of courtyard has two garages to each side of wide opening with small loading bay above, leading to further covered area with huge timber beams supporting double pitched C20 glazed roof. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Part of the later westward continuation of Rivers Street, running into Rivers Street Mews, consisting of smaller scale houses of lesser status than the rest of the Street. This mews, comprising individually modest structures, is significant as the best surviving Georgian mews remaining in the city. The 1886 Ordnance Survey map describes the group as Catherine Mews. Listing NGR: ST7470765421

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Legacy System number:: 510129
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.