NOS. 6 AND 7 WITH RAILINGS

NOS. 6 AND 7 WITH RAILINGS, 6 AND 7, TRIM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395386
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: NOS. 6 AND 7 WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NOS. 6 AND 7 WITH RAILINGS, 6 AND 7, TRIM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395386
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: NOS. 6 AND 7 WITH RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 6 AND 7 WITH RAILINGS, 6 AND 7, TRIM STREET

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:: NOS. 6 AND 7 WITH RAILINGS, 6 AND 7, TRIM STREET

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 74935 64918

Details

TRIM STREET 656-1/40/1694 (North side) Nos.6 AND 7 with railings 12/06/50

GV II

Pair of houses in row. Early C18, but refronted late C18 or early C19. Thomas Greenway has been suggested as architect. MATERIALS: Fine limestone ashlar, slate roof. EXTERIOR: Broad front with wide spaced windows, all sashes in plain reveals, entrance at either end, and extra doorway off-centre, left, deep mansard roof. Three storeys, attic and basement, wide C20 three-light dormers above wide ten/ten-pane windows to first and second floors, with balconettes, left. Ground floor has eight/eight-pane sashes, to left in deep reveals pair of panelled doors with margin pane transom light, on four steps to wide landing, centre six-panel smaller doorway, also deep-set, with steps, and far right another, with transom light, at pavement level to through-way. Basement has door and paired twelve-pane sashes. Ground floor and basement painted, including deep platband, above very plain walling, to modillion cornice with blocking course and parapet, lofty central ashlar stack brought well forward. INTERIOR: Not inspected. 1981 photo in the National Monuments Record shows first floor front room to No.6 with bolection moulded fireplace, modillion cornice, shutter boxes supported on squat pilasters; interior otherwise largely altered. 1981 photos in the National Monuments Record show a wooden staircase to No.7 with columnar newel and turned column and baluster rails, with moulded dado rail, rising full height; modillion cornice to entrance passage, moulded dado, arch on consoles leading through to stairwell; first floor front room with moulded stone fireplace surround, panelling to dado level, modillion cornice; rear room retaining modillion cornice only. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Basement areas enclosed by simple railings on stone curb, returned to doorways. HISTORY: The street was laid out in 1707 on land owned by George Trim, and was a significant enlargement of the city outside its walled medieval boundaries. The street retains flagged its flagged pavements and sett-covered roadway. SOURCES: Walter Ison, 'The Georgian Buildings of Bath' (2nd ed 1980), 104; Howard Colvin, 'A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840' (2nd ed. 1978), 364.

Listing NGR: ST7493564918

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Legacy System number:: 510793
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.