Bridgwater House
BRIDGWATER HOUSE, 2, TERRACE WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395324
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Bridgwater House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGWATER HOUSE, 2, TERRACE WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395324
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Bridgwater House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGWATER HOUSE, 2, TERRACE WALK
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:
- BRIDGWATER HOUSE, 2, TERRACE WALK
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 75185 64708
Details
TERRACE WALK 656-1/41/1669 (West side) No.2 Bridgwater House
(Formerly Listed as: TERRACE WALK No.2) 12/06/50
GV II
House with coffee house below. 1748-1750. Probably by John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar front, now rendered and painted, rubble to side walls, Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Double depth plan with rear wing. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attics, four windows. Ground floor has off centre stone doorcase of high quality. Six-panel door with arched head, surround with keystone and impost blocks. Ionic half columns with broken pediment over. Platband. To left of doorway replacement bow window of twenty-four panes, to right plate glass sash. First floor has two/two pane sashes with cornices and architraves, above architraved sashes of late C18 type, six/six. Projecting modillion cornice, parapet, partly cut down in front of two flat-topped casement dormers. Hipped mansard roof with large ashlar end stacks, with pots, some missing. Rear elevation altered and with later windows. INTERIOR: The ground floor has been comprehensively altered, formerly containing modern Building Society premises, currently (2002) undergoing further remodelling. Otherwise not inspected. HISTORY: This building appears on Wood's plan of area in his `Essay towards a Description of Bath', 1749. For many years it was well known as The Parade Coffee House, and as such was a building of considerable social prominence, located on this busy and public street. Early photographs show the elevation to be considerably altered: early in the 20th century the building was used as an apartment building, with an inserted door to the left of the main entrance, and a large bow window to the right, when the building was occupied by Crowbrow's India House, purveyors of 'works of art, antiques, curios' (National Monuments Record). SOURCES: Architectural Review, XVII (May 1905), 102; Ison W: The Georgian Buildings of Bath: Bath: 1980-: 140; Mowl T and Earnshaw B: John Wood Architect of Obsession: Bath: 1988-: 54; Holland E: The Kingston Estate within the walled City of Bath: Bath: 1992-: 8.
Listing NGR: ST7518564708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510737
- 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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