44 St James's Parade and 9 Lower Borough Walls

44, St James's Parade

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394836
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 44 St James's Parade and 9 Lower Borough Walls
Statutory Address:: 44, St James's Parade

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394836
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 44 St James's Parade and 9 Lower Borough Walls
Statutory Address 1:: 44, St James's Parade
Statutory Address 2:: 9, Lower Borough Walls

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:: 44, St James's Parade
Statutory Address:: 9, Lower Borough Walls

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 74955 64588

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/11/2017

656-1/40/2462

ST JAMES'S PARADE (north-east side), No. 44, and No 9 Lower Borough Walls

(Formerly Listed as: ST JAMES'S PARADE (North East side) Nos 31-46 (consec) & No.47 (Talbot Public House))

12/06/50

GV II House, with shop. c1785, probably by John Palmer.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar, double Roman tile roof.

PLAN: wide frontage house with trapezoidal plan having acute angled site boundary to right, mansard roof.

EXTERIOR: three storeys with attic and basement, two windows, all plain sash except paired and single twelve-pane dormers, above triple and paired light at first and second floors, each with blind light to pair, with moulded architraves. First floor also has moulded cornice drip, taken up as archivolt over central arched light to left, Palladian window also has brackets to sill. Centred to ground floor C20 glazed door on single step, in three-quarter column pedimented doorcase with enriched frieze having swags and urns in low relief. To each side C20 multi-pane display window. Small plinth, deep platband above ground floor, modillion cornice with blocking course and parapet, large stack to coped party division, left. Rear in painted ashlar.

INTERIOR: not inspected, but past inspection notes record a marble fireplace to the ground floor front room and a cornice.

HISTORY: St James's Parade, originally Thomas Street, was the centrepiece of a development from 1765 onwards by Richard Jones, Thomas Jelly and Henry Fisher who were granted liberty in September 1765 to 'pull down the Boro' walls next to the Ambry gardens in order to build new houses there'. The street was closed off with bollards at each end, and the houses fronted a broad paved walk in place of the road. The elevations, attributed to Thomas Jelly and John Palmer, show the influence of John Wood the Younger's work elsewhere, as in Rivers Street. The houses were mainly built in c.1768.

Following bomb damage in the area, extensive clearance and redevelopment has taken place. St James's Parade, after an uncertain period, was reprieved. This particular house was a rather later development in this 1760s street.

Listing NGR: ST7495564588

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 510243
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.