6, CAMBRIDGE PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395167
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: 6, CAMBRIDGE PLACE
Statutory Address:: 6, CAMBRIDGE PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395167
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 6, CAMBRIDGE PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 6, CAMBRIDGE PLACE

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:: 6, CAMBRIDGE 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 75694 64162

Details

CAMBRIDGE PLACE (North side) No.6 (Formerly Listed as: WIDCOMBE HILL (North side) Nos 4-6 (consec) Cambridge Place) 05/08/75

GV II

Detached villa. c1830. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: compact block with low pitched hipped roof, side entry to central transverse staircase. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and basement, three windows, sashes with margin lights all round, six-pane sash to first floor, and twelve-pane sash below, with raised surrounds and floating cornices to ground floor. Windows grouped centrally, and facade at each end slightly recessed for about 1m width, box eaves to brackets, and ashlar stack each side. Left return also three window, some of these blind, and a large square porch with Roman Doric pilasters and entablature, on panelled door to short flight of steps. Across front of house is terrace, with C20 rail. INTERIOR: Recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in the 1990¿s. The kitchen has the original pine dresser, floor to ceiling with turned supports for shelves. Stone steps down to cellar which has three rooms, one containing old stone wine racks and an inner room, with evidence of a lockable gate, to house the spirits store. The door to the garden is strengthened with iron strips on the panels and an iron security bar. HISTORY: The highest of a group of five villas here, set up from the street level, and very similar to Nos 4 and 5 (qv). SOURCES: Robert Bennett, `The Last of the Georgian Architects of Bath¿, Bath History IX (2002), 101.

Listing NGR: ST7569464162

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

Legacy System number:: 510581
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.