Cambridge House and Attached Railings
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 17, RUSSELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cambridge House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 17, RUSSELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394816
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Cambridge House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 17, RUSSELL STREET
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:
- CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 17, 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 74863 65372
Details
RUSSELL STREET 656-1/30/1459 (East side) No.17 Cambridge House and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as: RUSSELL STREET Nos.1-18 (Consec)) 12/06/50 GV II
House. c1771-1773. Architect: John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, render to basement, ashlar to rear, single pile parapeted mansard roof with further wing to rear left, Welsh Slate to front and rear, with ashlar stacks on coped party wall to right adjacent to stack of No.18 Russell Street (qv) and to rear left. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices and moulded stone sills on console brackets. Second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has, to right, two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with stone sills with C19 timber blind box to each window; to left, a six-panel door with flush and glazed panels with cast iron ring knocker with single Pennant step in cyma moulded architrave with flat surround with heavy console brackets supporting projecting moulded cornice forming hood over, three steps to Pennant paved crossover. Basement has two plate glass horned sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill, plank door and single pane window in Render infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. One double and one single dormer with plate glass sashes. Timber and stone bressumer. Band course over ground floor, modillion eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation not visible. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but probably of interest. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on painted 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: ST7486365372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510223
- 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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