9 AND 10, UNION PASSAGE
9 AND 10, UNION PASSAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395414
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 9 AND 10, UNION PASSAGE
- Statutory Address:
- 9 AND 10, UNION PASSAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395414
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 9 AND 10, UNION PASSAGE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9 AND 10, UNION PASSAGE
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:
- 9 AND 10, 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 75023 64859
Details
UNION PASSAGE 656-1/41/1706 (West side) Nos.9 AND 10 05/08/75
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.8 AND 9 UNION PASSAGE. Shops with accommodation over, now part of same block, and same commercial premises (Next) as Nos 16 and 17 Union Street (qv). c1806, with C20 additions, but two evidently built separately having different floor levels. Building probably supervised by City Architect John Palmer, but to earlier, c1791, elevational designs by Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Painted limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs, largely hidden from street. PLAN: Single depth plan, back-to-back with Union Street. EXTERIOR: Four storeys, splayed corner with Northumberland Place. Five windows to Union Passage, (three:two), one to corner, two to Northumberland Place (four together with No.16 Union Street). No.9 has three windows to each upper floor, all late C19 plate glass sashes in plain reveals, first floor sill band. Ground floor blank with modern service door, shopfront having been removed. Moulded cornice above second floor, full height storey above, without windows, parapet, mansard roof. No.10 has sill bands at each floor, six/six sashes, blind one on first and third floors on either side of corner, top floor corner window casement. Full four storeys. Late C20 `Regency/Victorian' shopfront, continues round corner into Northumberland Place. Cylindrical lantern at second floor level. 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.
Listing NGR: ST7502364859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510820
- 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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