SMALLCOMBE HOUSE

SMALLCOMBE HOUSE, 41, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395263
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: SMALLCOMBE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SMALLCOMBE HOUSE, 41, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395263
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: SMALLCOMBE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SMALLCOMBE HOUSE, 41, SYDNEY 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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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:: SMALLCOMBE HOUSE, 41, 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 75888 64572

Details

SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1630 (West side) No.41 Smallcombe House

(Formerly Listed as: SYDNEY BUILDINGS No.41) 11/08/72

GV II

Detached house on sloping site backing onto Kennet and Avon Canal. c1820. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar facade, rough ashlar returns, double pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to coped gable ends. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and lower ground floor; symmetrical three-window front. Ground floor platband and banded rustication to ground floor with radial voussoirs and slightly dropped keystones to flat arched recesses; prostyle porch with Tuscan columns and entablature, containing a six-panel door with circular panels, to centre. Eight/eight-pane sash ground floor windows; to left small rectangular window with grille. Six/six-pane sash windows to first floor have balconettes. Coped parapets and cornices to front and rear, first floor sill band. Cast iron railings with spearheaded finials on stone plinth to front of house, with pyramid-capped gate piers. INTERIOR: Bath Preservation Trust Interiors Survey (1991) reports the survival of a curved open-string stone staircase with plain balusters and mahogany hand-rail to right of large, stone-flagged, entrance hall; large drawing room along full width of rear ground floor with folding doors in centre, painted wood fireplace at each end, plaster cornice with running flower motif; reeded architraves with paterae to corners; chimneypiece of black and white marble, flanked by alcoves with reeded architraves to small sitting room to left of entrance; chimneypieces, six-panel doors, alcoves, cupboards, plasterwork survives to upper bedrooms; basement with French doors to verandah, study and dining room with wood and stone chimneypieces, arched vaults beneath pavement.

Listing NGR: ST7588864572

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Legacy System number:: 510672
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.