1, BROCK STREET

1, BROCK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1395029
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:
1, BROCK STREET
Statutory Address:
1, BROCK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1395029
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
1, BROCK STREET
Statutory Address 1:
1, BROCK STREET

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1, BROCK 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 74708 65279

Details

BROCK STREET (South side) No.1 (Formerly Listed as: BROCK STREET (South side) Nos.1-18 (Consecutive)) 12/06/50

GV I

House to south corner of the Circus and Brock Street. 1754-1759. Designed by John Wood the Elder, completed by John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, hipped slate mansard roof with moulded stacks to party walls. PLAN: Double depth. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement; five window range to entrance front. Three window left return, continuation of Nos 1-10 the Circus (qv). Elaborate facade has superimposed orders of Roman Doric, Ionic and Corinthian plain shafted paired engaged columns carrying appropriate entablatures and crowned by moulded coped parapet with piers over columns and pierced by horizontal ovals above windows. Triglyph frieze to the ground floor is embellished with carved motifs. Six/six pane sash windows, nine/nine panes and tall balconettes to first floor. Brock Street entrance facade similar but simpler. Parapet to left sweeps down to returned second floor cornice. Cornices are returned without entablatures; moulded architraves to windows, those to left hand ranges and some to centre and right are blind. Ground floor cornice widens to mutule cornice around enclosed porch with Roman Doric Columns in antis. INTERIOR: Not inspected. W. Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (1980), 141-146.

Listing NGR: ST7470865279

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
510447
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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