1-8, DARLINGTON PLACE
1-8, DARLINGTON PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395073
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, DARLINGTON PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1-8, DARLINGTON PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395073
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 1-8, DARLINGTON PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-8, DARLINGTON PLACE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1-8, DARLINGTON PLACE
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 75890 64796
Details
DARLINGTON PLACE (West side) Nos.1-8 (Consec) (Formerly Listed as: DARLINGTON PLACE Nos.1-10 (Consec)) 12/06/50
GV II
Eight terrace houses. 1813-24 with minor late C19 alterations. Possibly by John Pinch the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate and double Roman tile roofs with moulded stacks to party walls and returns, many with hand-thrown chimney pots. PLAN: Double depth plans. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and lower ground floors, each house two window ranges. Terrace has continuous returned coped parapet, cornice and three/three-pane sash windows to attic storey, six/six-pane sash windows to remainder. Second floor cornice sweeps slightly down to right quoin, continuous first floor sill band, and semicircular arched recesses to ground floor windows. Each house has lower two-storey porch to right with returned coped parapet, cornice, first floor sill band, and window to first floor front. Blind windows to returns, six-panel doors with decorative raised panels and narrow overlights. Porches to Nos. 1-4 have banded rustication. Nos. 5-8 have wider porches with semicircular arched recesses with cornices at impost level to doors without overlights, and small windows to the returns. No. 6 has swept canopy hood. INTERIORS: Some of the houses recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in the 1990¿s. No. 6 inspected by Bath Council 1986 had front vaults with stone sink and stone draining boards either side. Barley sugar mahogany newel post on lower stairs with acanthus leaves. Ground floor staircase has ebony inlaid handrail. Cantilevered stone staircase. Most of the original features have been retained. Matching dressers either side of the ground floor dining room fireplace. No. 16 partially inspected by Bath Council 1979 had possible Regency brass plate to protect stairs on half landing. Fine Regency Gothic white marble fireplace in basement. Rear ground floor has Adam style fireplace from Connaught Mansions, Pulteney Street. Owner planning to install two fine Adam style fluted Corinthian pilasters from the house of Robert Burns¿ mistress in Edinburgh. HISTORY: This development on the Bathwick Estate took its name from Henry Vane, 4th Earl of Darlington who succeeded to the estate of the Countess of Bath in 1808. John Pinch the Elder was associated with much of the development on this estate. SOURCES: [Robert Bennett, `The Last of the Georgian Architects of Bath¿, Bath History IX (2002), 100].
Listing NGR: ST7589064796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510494
- 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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