2-7, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394953
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 2-7, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address:: 2-7, BRIDGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394953
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 2-7, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 2-7, BRIDGE STREET

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:: 2-7, BRIDGE 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 75128 64932

Details

BRIDGE STREET (North side) Nos.2-7 (Consec) (Formerly Listed as: BRIDGE STREET (North side) Nos 1-6 (consec), No.7, Nos 8 and 9) 12/06/50

GV II

Shops with accommodation over. c1775, with late C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. PLAN: Double depth, some with rear extensions. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attics and cellars, three window fronts, stepped down the hill in pairs. Ground floor shopfronts, No.2 is 1922, by A.J. Taylor; No.3 is c1923; No.4 is c1923, by W.A. Williams; No.5 is late C19 or early C20; No.6 is mid C20 one, and No.7 has good early C19 shopfront of three bays with central door and entrance to house above to right. Shopfront has fluted Corinthian half columns, stallrisers, six panelled door, plate glass windows, single pane. Six panel door to right, rectangular light over with margin glazing. All windows have architraves, those to first floor with cornice heads. Second floor of No.3 and first floor of Nos 4 and 5 have six/six sashes, all others are late C19 plain plate glass sashes, except No.2, which has cut off first floor windows and two/two second floor sashes. Cornice, parapet, mansard roof, each house has a paired flat topped dormer, six/six sashes to No.3 only, stone stacks, all with pots. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: Nos 5, 6 and 7 can be seen in Thomas Malton's View of Pulteney Bridge from Spring Gardens, 1788. Bridge Street was cut through from the High Street following the Council's approval of the construction of Pulteney Bridge (qv) in 1769. Nos 1-6 (consec) were listed on 11th August 1972. SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1948), 65; G. Finch, Shopfront Record, Bath City Council (1992).

Listing NGR: ST7512864932

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Legacy System number:: 510369
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.