6, LOWER BOROUGH WALLS
6, LOWER BOROUGH WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395081
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 6, LOWER BOROUGH WALLS
- Statutory Address:
- 6, LOWER BOROUGH WALLS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395081
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 6, LOWER BOROUGH WALLS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, LOWER BOROUGH WALLS
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:
- 6, LOWER BOROUGH WALLS
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 75013 64580
Details
LOWER BOROUGH WALLS (South side) No.6 05/08/75
GV II
House and shop, now house. c1800 with C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, now painted, with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Double depth plan on corner site with two main elevations, terminal house to partly destroyed terrace (qv 5). EXTERIOR: Three storeys, with splayed inset west corner. Platbands and sill band to first floor, lintel moulded cornice and parapet, with pediment set against parapet facing road. Tripled windows, outer ones false, to upper floors, two/two sashes in plain reveals. Ground floor has shallow segmental arched recess which probably originally had bowed shop window, but now contains glazing bar sash window, eight/eight, panelled door, this may be alteration of c1840. One window to splayed corner, six panel door on ground floor with slab hood on shaped brackets. Two window west front (first one is blind), with further bay slightly recessed and with simpler cornice. Three windows on ground floor, furthest one six/six sash. Mansard roof with additional angle to canted corner. Paired flat topped dormer to road, two/two sashes, single two/two to other front, stacks with pots. INTERIOR: Inspected 1993, Georgian stairs with Doric colonnettes and fireplace. HISTORY: Maps and photographs suggest that this was balanced terrace with like terminal feature at the east end and three houses in between, of which No.5 (qv) is surviving. This house appears later in character than No.5, and is more like John Palmer designs of immediately after 1800. It is recorded in the Council Minutes (30th September 1765) that Richard Jones, Thomas Jelly and H. Fisher were to be allowed to demolish the Borough Walls in this area in order to build houses; and later (20th December 1765) that Lower Borough Walls was to be widened to improve access between Stall Street and the Sawclose. From 1830-40 it was the Crispin tavern, renamed the Bell Inn 1852. In 1883 the Bell Inn licence was revoked following an action by vicar of St. James for keeping a house of ill repute (upwards of sixty prostitutes on the premises!) In 1890 it became a Church Army Hostel, and by 1920 was occupied by W.R. Bowden, painter.
Listing NGR: ST7501364580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510502
- 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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