15, 16 AND 17, TRIM STREET
15, 16 AND 17, TRIM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395405
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 15, 16 AND 17, TRIM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 15, 16 AND 17, TRIM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395405
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 15, 16 AND 17, TRIM STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, 16 AND 17, TRIM STREET
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:
- 15, 16 AND 17, 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 74891 64887
Details
TRIM STREET 656-1/40/1701 (South side) Nos.15, 16 AND 17 11/08/72
GV II
Three houses, now offices. Dated 1724, restored 1897 and following wartime damage with C20 alterations. Thomas Greenway has been suggested as architect. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double Roman tile roof. fine terrace, set back from properties at each end, fronts restored in conjunction with restructuring of interior, former list refers to wide openings for vehicle access at ground floor level. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, eleven windows, all twelve-pane sashes, in moulded architraves with keystones rising at each floor to moulded full-width cornice, high C20 mansard roof has eleven twelve-pane sash dormers, and basement, in painted rubble, has six plain sashes and two doors. To left tall six-panel door in architrave with key, and to right similar door in deep reveals, on wide landing to three steps, with architrave, with fine shell hood on shaped brackets to pilasters. Top cornice, with blocking course and parapet, broken and slightly stepped up between bays three and four, end walls coped, and no stacks. Three lead downpipes, central one on broad pilaster, and above ground floor bay seven inscribed dates 1724 and 1897. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but thought to be totally reconstructed (past Ordnance Survey maps have marked these houses as warehousing). SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Basement area enclosed by simple railings on ashlar curb, returned at ends to doorways. HISTORY: Part of the formal development of the south side of Trim Street, the second phase of the street's growth after the initial phase of 1707 on land owned by George Trim, just outside the mediaeval walls. A good group of town houses from the immediate pre-Wood phase of Bath building. The Street retains its flagged pavements and sett roadway. This part of the street has however lost the stone pavements and roadway still retained at its east end. 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: ST7489464884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510811
- 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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