WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY HARPER FURNISHINGS AND CALOR GAS

WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY HARPER FURNISHINGS AND CALOR GAS, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394874
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY HARPER FURNISHINGS AND CALOR GAS
Statutory Address:: WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY HARPER FURNISHINGS AND CALOR GAS, LONDON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394874
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY HARPER FURNISHINGS AND CALOR GAS
Statutory Address 1:: WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY HARPER FURNISHINGS AND CALOR GAS, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE PREMISES OCCUPIED BY HARPER FURNISHINGS AND CALOR GAS, 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 75566 65863

Details

LONDON ROAD (South side) Warehouse and Office Premises occupied by Harper Furnishings and Calor Gas 05/08/75

GV II

Workhouse, later Walcot Poor House, now commercial premises. C18, rebuilt 1828 (dated) and became Sutcliffe Industrial Schools in 1848. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar facade and coursed rubblestone, slate roof with moulded stacks to coped gable ends and right of centre ridge to front block, pantile mansard roofs to rear ranges. PLAN: Four-unit plan with rear right wing to 1848 block, two long rear C18 wings and restored block accessed from Weymouth Street (now separate property). Tudor style. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, four-window front. Label moulds to three-light three-pane windows with pointed arches to lights. Crenellated parapet and weathered cornice, enclosed crenellated porch to left of centre with label mould and sunk spandrels over pointed arched recess with C20 double doors, large painted quatrefoil with moulded edges and date 1848 over porch between upper floors. Plaque below quatrefoil states "Rebuilt 1828. Mr James Dunn William Russell overseers. John Curry assistant". Rear three storey right wing has a pitched slate roof and flat stone mullions to a three-light window to each upper floor. Lower late C18 workhouse has concrete tiles and two C20 dormers to mansard roof, flat stone mullions to three three-light first floor windows, C20 windows and doors below. Block with entrance from Weymouth Street has row of thirteen restored stone mullioned windows at eaves level and C20 ground floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: An interesting instance of the Tudor Gothic manner, a favourite for late Georgian and early Victorian institutional building, being applied to a workhouse. This is but one of the philanthropic institutions in this area of Bath's northern approaches.

Listing NGR: ST7556665863

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Legacy System number:: 510281
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.