Woodfield Cottage, with boundary wall
Woodfield Cottage, 260, Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AZ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394790
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Woodfield Cottage, with boundary wall
- Statutory Address:
- Woodfield Cottage, 260, Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AZ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394790
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Woodfield Cottage, with boundary wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Woodfield Cottage, 260, Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AZ
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Woodfield Cottage, 260, Bloomfield Road, Bath, BA2 2AZ
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 73906 62915
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 November 2024 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards.
BLOOMFIELD ROAD (west side)
No.260 Woodfield Cottage, with boundary wall
(Formerly listed as No.260 Wakefield Cottage, with boundary wall)
05/08/75
GV
II
Gothick house to north of Bloomfield Crescent. c.1800.
MATERIALS: limestone ashlar, double Roman tile.
PLAN: T-plan house with wider front to road, projecting central bay to north-west facing slope.
EXTERIOR: three storeys at front. Three storey plus lower ground floor at rear, facing west. Road front has two windows, twelve pane sashes, but with blind lights painted in left at second and ground floor, broad six pane sash to lower right. Centred C20 door under slab hood and cheeks with reeded edges. Two platbands, thin cornice, crenellated parapet stepped up to right, and coped gables with ashlar stacks, to hipped roofs. Right return has a narrow gable end with platbands, then steps back to wing containing paired nine pane sashes under ogee lintel and pair of painted blind lights. Splayed back to rear range with terrace at mid-height.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to right boundary wall in coursed work with plain coping, ramped down, and rising from approx 3 to 4 metres in height.
HISTORY: this picturesque house is designed to derive maximum benefit from its commanding hillside setting. Masters, architect of Bloomfield Crescent, may have had a hand in its design: he is known to have designed Gothick houses elsewhere.
Listing NGR: ST7390662915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510196
- 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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