BALUSTRADED WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL

BALUSTRADED WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BROAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395028
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADED WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BALUSTRADED WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BROAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395028
Date first listed:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: BALUSTRADED WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BALUSTRADED WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BROAD 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BALUSTRADED WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BROAD 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 75018 65089

Details

BROAD STREET (West side) Balustraded wall, gate piers and gates to King Edward's School

GV II

Wall, gatepiers and gates. c1760 alignment altered c1884, with C20 addition. Probably by Thomas Jelly, as the main building (qv). MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with wrought iron. Six rusticated piers with three lengths of dwarf wall with four faced bulbous balusters and moulded coping. Balustrades wall C20 replacement for wrought iron railings. Two wrought iron gates with spear heads. Piers to main entrance have cornice caps and are topped by urns with acanthus decoration and Vitruvian scroll. Three of other piers have vases with foliate decoration and pine cone finial, one pine cone missing. SOURCES: W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 90; Bath & North East Somerset Record Office: Building Control drawing G50: 8 August 1884).

Listing NGR: ST7501865089

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Legacy System number:: 510446
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.