NO. 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NO. 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12, RUSSELL STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394809
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: NO. 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NO. 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12, RUSSELL STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394809
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NO. 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NO. 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12, RUSSELL 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NO. 12 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12, RUSSELL 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 74859 65408

Details

RUSSELL STREET 656-1/30/1454 (East side) No.12 and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: RUSSELL STREET Nos.1-18 (Consec)) 12/06/50 GV II

House, now flats. c1771-1773. Architect: John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble to plinth to basement, ashlar to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front, artificial slate to rear, with coped party wall to right with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots. Staircase to rear. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three two/two-sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with splayed jambs with friezes and cornices, lowered moulded stone sills on cut down console brackets with wrought iron balconettes. Second floor has two plate glass sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has two plate glass two/two sashes to right; to left, a six-panel door with flush beaded, fielded and single glazed panel with single Pennant step in cyma moulded architrave with flat surround with heavy console brackets supporting moulded cornice forming hood over, single step to crossover paved with three large Pennant slabs with C19 cast iron footscraper. Basement has two two-light casements in plain reveals with stone sills, C20 door under crossover, limestone area steps with Pennant inserts to treads with part wrought iron handrail. Two single dormers with plate glass sashes in moulded architraves. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet lowered in front of each dormer. Rear elevation partially visible has plate glass sashes, parapeted ashlar extension off staircase up to second half-landing. INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone bases. HISTORY: Russell Street developed by John Wood in conjunction with Assembly Rooms and east end of Rivers Street on part of Holdstock's Garden or Russell's Close bought by Wood and Andrew Sproule, his trustee, from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30th December 1768. SOURCES: Bath City Record Office, Deed Packet: 2382A 15 RUSSELL ST; T. Thorp T, `Plan of the Parish of Walcot ... Surveyed for - Gay Esq 1740'; Walter Ison, `The Georgian Buildings of Bath' ((2nd ed. 1980), 156. Listing NGR: ST7485965408

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Legacy System number:: 510215
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.