No. 42 and Attached Coach House to the Right
NO. 42 AND ATTACHED COACH HOUSE TO THE RIGHT, 42, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395265
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- No. 42 and Attached Coach House to the Right
- Statutory Address:
- NO. 42 AND ATTACHED COACH HOUSE TO THE RIGHT, 42, SYDNEY BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395265
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- No. 42 and Attached Coach House to the Right
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO. 42 AND ATTACHED COACH HOUSE TO THE RIGHT, 42, 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:
- NO. 42 AND ATTACHED COACH HOUSE TO THE RIGHT, 42, 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 75897 64559
Details
SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1631 (West side) No.42 and attached coach house to the right
(Formerly Listed as: SYDNEY BUILDINGS No.42) 11/08/72 GV II
Detached house overlooking Kennet and Avon canal to rear. c1820. MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar facade, rough ashlar returns, double pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to right gable ends. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and lower ground floor, two-window front. Ground floor with banded rustication to ground floor with radial voussoirs and slightly dropped keystones over flat-arched recesses to ground floor openings. Coped parapet returned over gable ends, cornice, first floor sill band, platband, six/six-pane sash windows, first floor left has balconette. Six-panel door to left has minimal blocked overlight, reeded lintel, glazed top panels and circular panels to centre. To left single storey hip-roofed coach house with coped parapet, cornice, frieze, and timber lintel to double planked doors. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Bath Preservation Trust Interiors Survey (1991) reports extensive survival of interior features, including a cantilevered stone stair with plain balusters and mahogany hand-rail; drawing room to rear with reeded veined marble chimneypiece, reeded architraves to windows and door, anthemion pattern plaster cornice; sitting room to front of ground floor with similar cornice and architraves and cupboards flanking chimneypiece (removed); reeded wooden chimneypieces with paterae and alcove cupboards to upper bedrooms. HISTORY: The elevation, similar to others in Sydney Buildings, is comparable to those presented to the Bathwick Estate Office for approval in 1820 and signed by John Pinch. Original indenture is dated 1820; first mortgage dated 1821. SOURCES: Bath Preservation Trust, 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (exhib. Cat. 1987), 40.
Listing NGR: ST7589764559
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510674
- 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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