NOS. 49 AND 50 WITH RAILINGS

NOS. 49 AND 50 WITH RAILINGS, 49 AND 50, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395273
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: NOS. 49 AND 50 WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NOS. 49 AND 50 WITH RAILINGS, 49 AND 50, SYDNEY BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395273
Date first listed:: 10-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NOS. 49 AND 50 WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 49 AND 50 WITH RAILINGS, 49 AND 50, 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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Location

Statutory Address:: NOS. 49 AND 50 WITH RAILINGS, 49 AND 50, 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 75923 64502

Details

SYDNEY BUILDINGS 656-1/42/1635 (West side) Nos.49 AND 50 with railings 11/08/72

GV II

Semi-detached pair of houses. c1825. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. PLAN: Symmetrical double depth pair, set on steep site. EXTERIOR: Two storey front and full three storey rear; five bay front with two windows per floor per house, and blind windows at party wall. Arcade of shallow recessed arches at ground floor level below plat band; cornice and parapet above first floor; coped gables, large central ashlar stacks. In outer bays panelled doors have deep painted-in transom lights. No.49 has twelve-pane sash windows and basement grille; No.50 plain plate glass sashes, but large sixteen-pane to basement. To left of No.50 added set back lower bay with C20 eight-pane light at each level. Rear of No.49 has full height canted bay with plain sash, and further sash to right, with sunk panel at mid floor, and with small oculus to left, and No.50 has large twelve-pane sash at each level, with horizontal louvred shutters to top floor, with small oculus to right. INTERIORS: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Across front, on small stone curb to rounded top are original simple spike railings, returned at ends, and with central stone pier with capping. To No.49 boundary continues with ashlar wall of same height for approx 3m, including plank gate. A design very similar to this façade was submitted for approval to the Bathwick Estate Office in 1825. SOURCES: Bath Preservation Trust, 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (exhib. Cat. 1987), 45.

Listing NGR: ST7592364502

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Legacy System number:: 510683
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.