NO.15 MONTAGUE HOUSE

NO.15 MONTAGUE HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394810
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: NO.15 MONTAGUE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NO.15 MONTAGUE HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394810
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NO.15 MONTAGUE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NO.15 MONTAGUE HOUSE, LONDON ROAD

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.15 MONTAGUE HOUSE, LONDON 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 76291 66453

Details

LONDON ROAD (North side) No.15 Montague House (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD (North side) Montague House) 11/08/72

GV II

Detached villa. Late C18. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double-pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to coped gable ends. PLAN: Double depth plan flanked by attached single storey pavilions, hipped roof to that to right. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement, symmetrical front. Late C19 plate glass windows. Modillion cornice entablature and parapet, chamfered rustication up to ground floor platband, steps up to six-panel door with narrow overlight under prostyle porch with restrained acanthus band to capitals which support dentil cornice. left hand pavilion has semicircular arched recess, that to right has double doors. Open work decorative area railings. INTERIOR: Inspected 1975. Extremely ornate niches, two semi-circular and one flat-headed with exquisite floral detailing. HISTORY: Montague House, residence of William Montague Esq. was sold in August 1794. Chaning-Pearce who accumulated one of the finest fossil collections of C19 (now in British Museum) built a museum here for his collection between 1845 and his untimely death in 1847 at the age of 36.

Listing NGR: ST7629166453

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 510217
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.