The Loft Club
THE LOFT CLUB, SAW CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394908
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Loft Club
- Statutory Address:
- THE LOFT CLUB, SAW CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394908
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- The Loft Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LOFT CLUB, SAW CLOSE
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:
- THE LOFT CLUB, SAW CLOSE
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:
- ST7488564812
Details
656-1/40/1464
05/08/75
SAW CLOSE
(East side)
The Loft Club
(Formerly Listed as:
SAW CLOSE Zetters Social Club.
The Regency Public House)
GV
II
Social club, formerly The Regency Public House. Possibly c1670.
MATERIALS: Rubble with ashlar dressings, flat roof, surface not visible.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys. One window front facing west to Saw Close and three window north-facing front adjoining Gala Bingo Club (q.v.) with which this building was formerly associated. All windows are four-pane plate glass sashes: set in raised plat painted stone surrounds on west front, and in painted moulded architraves to north. Ground floor has former late Victorian pub frontages, with fluted wood Corinthian pilasters carrying a full entablature, architrave and frieze broken forward above each pilaster; west front has a large central glazed panel above panelled stall-riser in centre, with panelled door and transom light to right, and former door and transom light to left, divided by six pilasters. North return elevation has a large window between pilasters over a panelled stall-board; to left is a panelled door and transom light; small inserted window in between; entire ground floor has been painted. Upper floors are less extensively altered, and suggest early domestic origins of this building. Weathered drip courses run all round above each level of window heads, with further string course under the ashlar blocking course; rendered parapet to west front, iron railings to northern return.
INTERIOR: Much altered.
HISTORY: This large house stood in the north-west part of the walled city, close to the Timber Close. It has been identified with a house known from the 1670s as the Pound House: Gilmore's map of 1694 identifies it as a cockpit. The area thus has a long continuous history as a place of entertainment. It was subsequently absorbed by the neighbouring theatre to form a Late Victorian group devoted to popular entertainment.
SOURCES: M. Chapman & E. Holland, `The Development of the Saw Close from the Middle Ages', Bath History VIII (2000), 61.
Listing NGR: ST7488564812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510318
- 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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