Retaining Wall East of Railway Line
RETAINING WALL EAST OF RAILWAY LINE, SYDNEY GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395287
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Wall East of Railway Line
- Statutory Address:
- RETAINING WALL EAST OF RAILWAY LINE, SYDNEY GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395287
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Retaining Wall East of Railway Line
- Statutory Address 1:
- RETAINING WALL EAST OF RAILWAY LINE, SYDNEY GARDENS
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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.
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:
- RETAINING WALL EAST OF RAILWAY LINE, SYDNEY GARDENS
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:
- ST7583665394
Details
SYDNEY GARDENS
656-1/32/1646
Retaining Wall East of Railway Line
05/08/75
GV II*
Retaining wall between Beckford Road and Sydney Road to east of former Great Western Railway. c1840. By I.K. Brunel, Engineer to Great Western Railway. Limestone ashlar. Approx 7m high with panelled parapet over cornice and frieze. Lower part has concave batter, plinth and shallow piers approx 1.5m wide and 8m apart.
HISTORY: Part of the outstanding Great Western Railway mainline: the sensitivity of the site of this cutting resulted in an exceptionally architectural treatment which, far from scarring the pleasure ground, added a new feature within the landscape of Sydney Gardens. The broad Great Western Railway gauge is immediately apparent. The first train ran through in June 1841.
SOURCES: John Froud, 'The Great Western Railway in Bathwick' in 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (Bath Preservation Trust exhib. Cat. 1987), 18-19; Brenda Snaddon, 'The Last Promenade. Sydney Gardens, Bath' (2000), 31-2.
Listing NGR: ST7583665394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510698
- 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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