RETAINING WALL AT EAST END AND WHITEHALL STAIRS

RETAINING WALL AT EAST END AND WHITEHALL STAIRS, SOUTH PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394996
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL AT EAST END AND WHITEHALL STAIRS
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL AT EAST END AND WHITEHALL STAIRS, SOUTH PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394996
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL AT EAST END AND WHITEHALL STAIRS
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL AT EAST END AND WHITEHALL STAIRS, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL AT EAST END AND WHITEHALL STAIRS, 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 75377 64610

Details

SOUTH PARADE 656-1/41/1509 (East side) Retaining wall at east end and Whitehall Stairs

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Railings and steps. Early C19. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar coping, and wrought iron. They form the retaining wall at east end of South Parade outside No.14. HISTORY: This street was laid out by John Wood the Elder, the building plots being let between 1743 and 1749, but the east end was completed later. The present wall and steps are even later, however: Thomas Hearne's `A View of Bath from Spring Gardens with Pulteney Bridge' (1790, engraved by Byrne and Schuman 1792) shows the wall set further back with flight of steps coming directly away from, rather than parallel with, the face of wall as now. Nonetheless, in spite of such alterations, the wall and steps are of considerable interest as the remnants of the former ferry that served Spring Gardens and Widcombe, a picturesque departure point for pleasure trips.

Listing NGR: ST7537764610

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Legacy System number:: 510414
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.