18 AND 19, DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS
18 AND 19, DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395329
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 19, DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 19, DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395329
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 19, DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 19, DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS
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:
- 18 AND 19, DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS
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 74801 63566
Details
DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS (South side) Nos.18 AND 19 (Formerly Listed as: DEVONSHIRE BUILDINGS Nos.1-15 AND 17-21 (Consec)) 05/08/75
GV II
Pair of terrace houses. c1800-1804 with C20 alterations. Possibly by Charles Harcourt Masters. MATERIALS: Rendered rubble front, slate roofs. PLAN: Compact double depth houses with central valley, entered from south side, with principal elevation and garden to north. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, two windows each, plain sashes, tripartite outer bays and single light inner. At first floor No. 18 has single light tripartite window blind, with Venetian window to first floor. Ground floor two single sashes, to left, panelled door under tent hood on latticed standards. No. 19 similar, with both sidelights blind to second floor, and further light added, and door to right. First floor windows have iron flower guards. Platband above ground floor, cornice, blocking course and parapet. Coped party walls each have stack, with small stack to centre. Rear fully built out to pavement level, in rubble, with various sashes, some blocked. Those to No. 18 with flush moulded wood architraves, and door with slab hood and cheeks, with reeded front edges. No. 19 has C20 door and hood with cheeks. INTERIORS: No. 18 Recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in 1994.Venetian window on first floor. There is a circular pane over the central arch. Tiled fireplace in the ground floor sitting room with a later surround. There is a 100¿ deep well in the kitchen. Cantilevered staircase with mahogany cross-banded handrail. No. 19 Recorded by Bath Preservation Trust in 1994 and a measured survey carried out for the owner. Marble slate mantle and surround with shallow design in gold. Three horizontal panels underneath. Panelled door with raised figures of Diana and Ceres. Folding mahogany butlers¿ tray in hall. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: North side, set back, are two pairs of channelled ashlar square gatepiers, centre pair conjoined, with moulded cappings, to C20 wood gates. Concave arch to each side coursed stone wall to plain coping, approx 1.7m high to No.18 and 1.3m to No. 19, sweep forward, terminating in simple square pier at each end. Stonewalls also return at party divisions. Only pair of houses in row in which boundary wall taken back from normal pavement edge. Part of long speculative row, with many variations, retaining much of original detailing to both fronts. Indenture 1st May 1790 for 19 Devonshire Buildings (BPT)
Listing NGR: ST7480163566
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510742
- 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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