Kennet House
KENNET HOUSE, SYDNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395313
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Kennet House
- Statutory Address:
- KENNET HOUSE, SYDNEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395313
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Kennet House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENNET HOUSE, SYDNEY ROAD
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:
- KENNET HOUSE, SYDNEY ROAD
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 75866 65177
Details
SYDNEY ROAD 656-1/32/1660 (South side) Kennet House 05/08/75
GV II
Detached house. c1840. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, steeply pitched concrete tile Roof, wooden bargeboards to gable. PLAN: L-plan with C20 left wing. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, three bay front. Plinth, flat arches and label moulds to two-light stone mullioned casement windows with small panes. Left bay projects forward, with stone-roofed bay window to ground floor, pair of lights below hood mould to first floor, and slatted louvre within gable enriched with open cusped barge boards beneath finial with wrought iron weathervane. To centre, enclosed gabled porch with moulded coping and diagonal stone finial, pointed arched opening and two-vertical-panelled door. Right bay with two two-light windows below hood moulds. Right return with projecting forward-facing gable to left, and three-light window to right. Some of windows have crown glass. INTERIOR: Noted as having mid C19 six-panel doors and architraves, fire surrounds with roundels to block corners and reeded jambs and lintels. An early, picturesquely conceived house showing the late Georgian rejection of the classically conceived terrace; it shows the clear influence of Edward Davis's Gothic Farm House in Victoria Park of 1830.
Listing NGR: ST7586665177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510726
- 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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