Front Garden Wall to Sydney Gardens Hotel and Ravenswell
FRONT GARDEN WALL TO SYDNEY GARDENS HOTEL AND RAVENSWELL, SYDNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395318
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Front Garden Wall to Sydney Gardens Hotel and Ravenswell
- Statutory Address:
- FRONT GARDEN WALL TO SYDNEY GARDENS HOTEL AND RAVENSWELL, SYDNEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395318
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Front Garden Wall to Sydney Gardens Hotel and Ravenswell
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRONT GARDEN WALL TO SYDNEY GARDENS HOTEL AND RAVENSWELL, 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:
- FRONT GARDEN WALL TO SYDNEY GARDENS HOTEL AND RAVENSWELL, 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:
- ST7584865236
Details
656-1/32/163
05/08/75
SYDNEY ROAD
(North side)
Front garden wall to Sydney Gardens Hotel and Ravenswell
(Formerly Listed as:
SYDNEY ROAD
Garden wall to Lonsdale and Ravenswell)
GV
II
A garden wall, entrances and gatepiers fronting two semi-detached houses, similar to that of nearby Miles House (qv), dating from 1853.
MATERIALS: The wall is constructed from limestone ashlar, with plain capping.
EXTERIOR: The wall is roughly 90m long and 1.5m high, and is articulated by piers c.2m high and c.9m apart. There is an arched entrance to each house, c.3.5m high; these have block tops, swept at the edges over modillion cornices and semicircular arches with keystones, sunk spandrels, moulded imposts and traces of former bell pulls. The piers have similar cornices, and their shafts have recessed panels, within each of which is a raised panel with rounded corners. To the left of the entrance way to the Sydney Gardens Hotel is a C20 opening for vehicles; this and the entrance way have late C20 plank gates, whilst the entrance to Ravenswell retains its original double doors with recessed panels.
HISTORY: The wall was constructed in 1853 as the perimeter wall for a pair of villas, formerly Lonsdale and Ravensworth, now the Sydney Gardens Hotel and Ravenswell. The buildings stand on the site formerly occupied by the labyrinth, one of the earlier features at Sydney Gardens pleasure grounds, between the GWR railway and the Kennet and Avon Canal as they enter Sydney Gardens.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION:
The front garden wall to the Sydney Gardens Hotel and Ravenswell is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* A substantial length of highly architectural boundary wall dating from the middle of the C19, retaining its relationship to the houses which it was built to serve
* The inclusion of good quality, decorated gatepiers and impressive entrance ways
* Group value with the Grade II listed Sydney Gardens Hotel and Ravenswell, and the adjacent GWR railway bridge and Kennet and Avon Canal bridge, both listed at Grade II
Listing NGR: ST7584865236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510731
- 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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