Sydney House
SYDNEY HOUSE, SYDNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395319
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Sydney House
- Statutory Address:
- SYDNEY HOUSE, SYDNEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395319
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Sydney House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SYDNEY 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:
- SYDNEY 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 75915 65394
Details
SYDNEY ROAD 656-1/32/1664 (West side) Sydney House 12/06/50
GV II
Detached house, now offices. 1835-6. Attributed to John Pinch the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, single pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to the returns. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement, symmetrical five-window range. Coped parapet with balustraded panels to front over windows, sweeps up on returns to meet stacks, cornice and frieze, ground floor platband and banded rustication and incised voussoirs to ground floor. Front, facing north-east, has moulded architraves to upper floor windows, small three/three-pane sash to centre of second floor flanked by square two-pane casement windows, those to first floor have cornices, friezes, bracketed sills, six panes to upper sashes and two horizontal panes to lower sashes. French windows to ground floor have margin panes and overlights. Central three-bays step slightly forward. Returns have some sash and some blind windows. Overlight to six-panel door in left return has triangular margin panes to rectangular, central pane. Central three stepped-forward bays of rear, facing Sydney Gardens, form rear wing. Lower two storey range steps further forward with imposing segmental bay. Similar balustraded parapet, cornice and frieze front, four Corinthian columns flank three six/one-pane sash windows with late C19 sunblind boxes, segmental curved cast iron trellised balcony fronts whole central block. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Interior sub-divided into flats in 1983. HISTORY: Axially aligned with the former Sydney Hotel (now the Holburne Museum), this house was built on ground taken out of the north-eastern corner of Sydney Gardens. The Loggia below [q.v.] was rebuilt at the time of construction. SOURCES: Brenda Snaddon, 'The Last Promenade. Sydney Gardens Bath' (2000), 28.
Listing NGR: ST7591565394
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510732
- 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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