1-11, THE CORRIDOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395345
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 1-11, THE CORRIDOR
Statutory Address:: 1-11, THE CORRIDOR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395345
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 1-11, THE CORRIDOR
Statutory Address 1:: 1-11, THE CORRIDOR

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-11, THE CORRIDOR

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:: ST7505964851

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/01/2013 656-1/41/1675 12/06/50

THE CORRIDOR (South side) Nos.1-11 (Consec)

(Formerly Listed as THE CORRIDOR Nos 1-11 (consec), 11A, 12A & 12- 22 (consec))

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Arcade of shops. 1825, altered 1870. By Henry Edmund Goodridge. MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar, roofs of buildings not visible, roof of arcade iron and glass. Two parallel rows of shops (of which this is the south Range) forming a glass-roofed arcade, running from High Street to Union Passage. Terminal blocks on High Street (Nos 18 and 19), and on Union Passage (Nos 11A and 12A The Corridor) are listed separately, as is later extension of The Corridor to Union Street (qv Nos 16-19 Union Street). EXTERIOR: Two storeys. Continuous range of timber shopfronts with occasional entry to upper floor, plate glass windows with narrow, widely spaced mullions. Shopfronts divided by pilasters, and have wreathed entablature, arched glass roof rests on cornice. Upper floor hidden above roof, but has alternate tripartite and single sash windows, plain, as demonstrated by central portion of arcade where roof raised to eaves level, and pitched to centre, gallery with good cast iron balustrade, plaster classical statues at either end. HISTORY: The young Goodridge built The Corridor as a personal speculation: it was originally known as Goodridge's Corridor. One of earliest examples of shopping arcade outside London, following Samuel Ware's Burlington Arcade of 1815-19 and John Nash's Royal Opera Arcade of 1816-18, it is closely contemporary with James Foster's arcade in The Horsefair, Bristol of 1824-1825. The original roof was glazed with coloured glass and had heavy timber skylights. It stands on the site of a medieval close called Marchant's Court, clearly shown on Gilmore's map of 1694. The present shop fronts date from the 1870 alteration (those to Nos 8, 9 and 10 are c1900): Goodridge's original shops were open stalls as in Lowther Arcade in London. The Corridor was damaged by an I.R.A. bomb in December 1974, and much of the present glazing dates from then. A notable late Georgian retail development, employing Goodridge's characteristic Greek Revival style to notable effect. SOURCES: Orbach J: Card Index of Bath Architects and Streets: 1978-; Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 352; Field G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-.

Listing NGR: ST7505864843

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Legacy System number:: 510758
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.