40, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
40, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395260
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 40, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address:
- 40, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395260
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 40, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, 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:
- 40, 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 75881 64583
Details
SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1629 (West side) No.40
(Formerly Listed as: SYDNEY BUILDINGS No.39 (Sydney Lodge). No.40 (Preston House)) 11/08/72
GV II
House to left end of irregular terrace that backs onto Kennet and Avon canal. c1820. MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar, roof unseen, moulded stacks to right party wall. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Two storeys with lower ground floor to rear, two-window front. House steps slightly forward from No.39 (qv) to the right but parapet, cornice, first floor sill band, and ground floor platband are continuous. Banded rustication to ground floor with radial voussoirs and slightly dropped keystones over flat arched recesses to ground floor. Six/six-pane sash windows, those to first floor have balconettes, to left shallow blocked overlight with lozenge panel and reeded lintel over five-panel door glazed to top. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Two rooms per floor. Bath Preservation Trust's Interiors Survey recorded interior in 1990, reports survival of cantilevered stone staircase with mahogany hand-rail; alcoves or cupboards flanking ground floor chimneypieces; scrolled foliate plasterwork to drawing room cornice; reeded architraves with paterae roundels to corners; six-panel doors; fireplaces mainly blocked; dining room to lower ground floor with stone chimneypiece, scrolled plaster cornice. HISTORY: A design matching this elevation was submitted to the Bathwick Estate Office in 1820. SOURCES: Bath Preservation Trust, 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (exhib. Cat. 1987), 40.
Listing NGR: ST7588164583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510669
- 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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