12-16, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

12-16, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395229
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
12-16, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:
12-16, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395229
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
12-16, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:
12-16, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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:
12-16, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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 75835 64785

Details

SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1619 (West side) Nos.12-16 (Consec) 05/08/75

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Five terrace houses on site that slopes to rear and backs onto the Kennet and Avon Canal. Mid/late C19. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, single pitched slate roofs with dormers and moulded stacks to left gable end and alternate coped party walls; almost unaltered feature of cream crown-topped chimney pots. PLAN: Double depth plans. EXTERIOR: Each house of two storeys, with a two-bay front to street. Fretted bargeboards to gabled dormer of each house; stop-chamfered arrises and bracketed sills to plate glass sash windows; ground floor platband that encircles block; cornices on elaborate consoles over six-panel doors and overlights. Rear, or canal side elevations are more architectural: the houses at either end of the row have hipped roofs over full-height rectangular bays; the three central houses have similar but canted bays, all with sill bands and plate glass sash windows. INTERIORS: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7583564785

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

Legacy System number:
510642
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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