21 AND 22, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
21 AND 22, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395238
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 22, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address:
- 21 AND 22, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395238
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 21 AND 22, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21 AND 22, 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.
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:
- 21 AND 22, 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 75826 64739
Details
SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1621 (West side) Nos.21 AND 22 05/08/75
GV II
Two houses, formerly one, on sloping canal side site. C.1820 with late C19 lean-to left wing with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched double Roman tile roof with moulded stacks to coped gable ends. PLAN: Double depth square plan, with later accretions. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and lower ground floor, originally two-window range. Coped parapets to front and rear, cornice, simpler to returns, encircles building, first and ground floor platbands, to front three/three-pane sash windows to second floor, six/six-pane sashes to first floor and plate glass sashes to rest. Courtyard to front roofed between house and rubblestone street wall approx 4m high that slopes down to left, following roofline of single storey lean-to wing. Behind it against left return late C19 two storey lean-to wing with tall stack meeting height of those to house. Left hand part of house now No.21. To right return C20 two storey porch with six/six-pane sash to first floor over C20 door. Rear similar with plate glass sash windows. INTERIORS: Not inspected. No.21 recorded by Bath Preservation Trust Interiors Survey, reports cantilevered stone staircase of four flights with wood (and some iron) railings to mahogany hand-rail; three rooms per floor; plaster acanthus leaf cornices with reeding to several rooms. One of the larger late Georgian houses on this part of the Bathwick estate, it has been engulfed by later additions, which reflect the importance of the canal and associated activities.
Listing NGR: ST7582664739
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510649
- 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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