9-13, SOUTH PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1394994
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 9-13, SOUTH PARADE
Statutory Address:: 9-13, SOUTH PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1394994
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 9-13, SOUTH PARADE
Statutory Address 1:: 9-13, SOUTH PARADE

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:: 9-13, SOUTH PARADE

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 75347 64631

Details

SOUTH PARADE 656-1/9/1507

Nos.9-13 (Consec)

(Formerly Listed as: SOUTH PARADE Nos 9-13 (consec) Southbourne Hotel). No.14) 12/06/50

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Houses, now flats. c1743-9. By John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. EXTERIOR: The western and central part of a Palladian palace- fronted terrace, twenty bays long, arranged one:three:twelve:three:one, with the three bay pedimented sections projecting slightly forward. Three storeys with attics and basement, raised on a substantial terrace which increases in height as the land falls down to the river. No.9 is five bays wide; the rest of houses (including No.14, q.v.)are only of three bays. No. 9 has a central aedicular doorcase with pediment on consoles; the other houses have similar doorcases on the left-hand side of the fronts. All doorways have altered eight panel doors. Platband at first floor level. All the windows are late C19 plate glass sashes, set within moulded surrounds with cornice hoods to the first floor; dropped sills to first floors of Nos. 9 and 10. Modillion cornice and pediments, mansard roof, three flat-topped dormers to each house, except for No.9 which has two double dormers; ashlar stacks all with pots removed. The parapet (formerly balustraded) has been entirely removed. Wrought-iron front area railings have replaced the original stone balustrades. Mainly C19 plate glass windows to deep basements. The four-bay return to Duke Street is set forward in emphasis to balance the similar return elevation of No.8 South Parade (q.v.); the windows are open, not blind, with dropped cills to the right-hand pair of windows on the first floor. Rear elevations mostly of rubble (with some ashlar) and sport a variety of windows, some six/six panes sashes but many are plate glass; full height ashlar three-bay rear wing to No.12. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: Part of John Wood's development of the Abbey Orchard, 1740-49, one of the most important urban developments of its day. Work commenced on the row in 1743, but plots were still being assigned in 1749. No.12 is associated with the celebrated surgeon John Hunter FRS, who stayed here in 1783 (plaque). SOURCES: John Wood, 'A Description of Bath' (2nd ed. 1765, repr. 1969), 248 & 349-51; Walter Ison, `The Georgian Buildings of Bath¿ (2nd d. 1980), 137, 229; Mowl T and Earnshaw B: `John Wood Architect of Obsession¿ (1988), 135-147; James Lees-Milne and D. Ford, `Images of Bath¿ (1982), 608.

Listing NGR: ST7534764631

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Legacy System number:: 510412
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.