Sydney Parade

SYDNEY PARADE, 30-38, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395256
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Sydney Parade
Statutory Address:
SYDNEY PARADE, 30-38, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395256
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Sydney Parade
Statutory Address 1:
SYDNEY PARADE, 30-38, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 2:
SYDNEY PARADE, 30-38, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SYDNEY PARADE, 30-38, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:
SYDNEY PARADE, 30-38, 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 75853 64626

Details

SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1627 (West side) Nos.30-38 (Consec) Sydney Parade 11/08/72

GV II

Nine terrace houses on sloping canal side site, overlooking the Kennet and Avon Canal to rear. 1820. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, mostly painted, double pitched roofs of various materials, moulded stacks to party walls. PLAN: Double depth plans. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and lower ground floors, each house has two-window front. Continuous coped parapet, first floor sill band, ground floor platband; banded rustication with radial voussoirs and dropped keystones; recessed flat-arched panels to ground floor openings, and plinth. Terrace formerly had six/six-pane sash windows, five-panel doors with trellis glazing to top panels and lozenge panels to blocked overlights, some to right have small circular windows to right of doors to left. Nos 34-38 with six-panel doors and taller overlights, but are otherwise similar to the rest of the row. Painted ashlar with `SYDNEY PARADE¿ painted onto platband. No.30, at north end of row, has balconettes to windows and plain panel to top of door. No.31 similar. No.32 painted ashlar with plate glass sash windows and late C19 balconettes to right hand range. Door has cast iron wreath knocker. No.33 has splayed reveals, balconettes to right and plain top panel to door. No.34 has balconettes and plain top panel to door. No.35 has balconettes, six-panel door glazed to top and taller lozenge to overlight. No.36 similar to No.35. No.37 has late C19 balconettes, six-panel door and C20 glazing to semi elliptical topped overlight. No.38 has five-panel door glazed to top. INTERIORS: Not inspected. No.37 recorded by Bath Preservation Trust's Interiors Survey, 1990, reports presence of cantilevered stone staircase with mahogany hand-rail; alcoves or cupboards flanking (replica) chimneypieces to ground floor rooms; elaborate plasterwork to ground floor ceilings (but not above); six panel doors. Designs for these houses (then numbered 17-25 Sydney Buildings) were submitted to the Bathwick Estate Office in 1820. SOURCES: Bath Preservation Trust: 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (exhib. Cat. 1987), 40.

Listing NGR: ST7585364626

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
510665
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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