Gothic Cottage
GOTHIC COTTAGE, 27, SION HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394928
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHIC COTTAGE, 27, SION HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394928
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOTHIC COTTAGE, 27, SION HILL
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:
- GOTHIC COTTAGE, 27, SION HILL
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 73960 65951
Details
SION HILL 656-1/28/1476 (North side) No.27 Gothic Cottage 12/06/50
GV II
Gothic Cottage Ornee, 1797. MATERIALS: Flemish-bond brick facade, random bond to returns with Bath stone dressings, double pitched, double Roman tile roof with brick bases to moulded stacks to returns and rear. EXTERIOR: Two storey, symmetrical three-window front range. Ogee-arched six-flush-panel door, glazed to top with cast iron knocker, flanked by later hip-roofed stone slated lean-to running across entire front, with porch in centre and rows of four-light small-paned casement windows either side, with thicker glazing bars to Gothic overlights. Three ogee-arched six/six-pane sash windows with Gothic glazing bars to first floor with stone dressings; classical rusticated quoins, coped parapet, returned cornice and cornice band above. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Bath Preservation Trust Interiors Survey reports survival of panelled doors with Gothick motifs to drawing room and study; coved ceiling to breakfast room with cable moulding; Gothick grey marble chimneypiece to dining room, Gothic plasterwork to hall and elsewhere; stone staircase with iron rails decorated with Gothick motifs, mahogany handrail. HISTORY: According to the Bath Directory for 1862 James Dredge, Engineer and designer of the Victoria Bridge (qv) lived in Gothic Cottage, Sion Hill. An unusual house in terms of materials and the mixture of Gothic and classical design elements. A drawing of the cottage pre-alterations to front is in the Bath Reference Library.
Listing NGR: ST7396065951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510342
- 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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