6, 6A AND 7, UNION PASSAGE

6, 6A AND 7, UNION PASSAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395413
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:
6, 6A AND 7, UNION PASSAGE
Statutory Address:
6, 6A AND 7, UNION PASSAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395413
Date first listed:
12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
6, 6A AND 7, UNION PASSAGE
Statutory Address 1:
6, 6A AND 7, UNION PASSAGE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
6, 6A AND 7, UNION PASSAGE

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 75025 64848

Details

UNION PASSAGE 656-1/41/1705 (West side) Nos.6, 6A AND 7

Formerly Listed as: UNION PASSAGE No.7)

(Formerly Listed as: UNION PASSAGE (West side) Nos.3-6 AND 6A (Consec))) 12/06/50

GV II

Shops with accommodation over. c1806, altered late C19. Building probably supervised by City Architect John Palmer, but to earlier (c1791) elevational designs by Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Painted Bath limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs, largely hidden from street. PLAN: Single depth plan, back-to-back with Nos 18 and 19 Union Street and probably built together with them. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attics, three windows wide. Ground floor has late C19 shopfronts of good character. No.7 also has passageway continuing The Corridor through to right, with c1900 shop window also looking into this. No.6 has double fronted shopfront, with six panel door on right and plain door on left giving access to upper floors, these framed by panelled Corinthian pilasters. Deep fascias. Windows above are all six/six sashes in plain reveals except centre one on second floor blind recess. Cornice, parapet, mansard roof with two flat-topped dormers to each house. No.7 has C19 gas lamp and bracket projecting over archway. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: Undertaken as part of the scheme of improvement for the City centre following the Bath Improvement Act of 1789. Union Passage is a street line known to survive from the Saxon period; previously Cox Lane, it is shown on Smith's Map of 1588. No.6 was listed on 5th August 1975. SOURCES: Graham Finch, 'Shopfront Record' (Bath City Council 1992).

Listing NGR: ST7502564848

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
510819
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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