19, UNION PASSAGE

19, UNION PASSAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395417
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
19, UNION PASSAGE
Statutory Address:
19, UNION PASSAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395417
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
19, UNION PASSAGE
Statutory Address 1:
19, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
19, 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 75037 64864

Details

UNION PASSAGE 656-1/1/1710 (East side) No.19 05/08/75

GV II

Shop with accommodation over. c1806 with mid C19 addition. Building probably supervised by City Architect, John Palmer, but to earlier (c1791) elevations by Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Corner site matching Nos 11 and 12 Northumberland Place (qv) opposite. L-shaped plan with elevations to both Union Passage and Northumberland Place. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic. Splayed corner. Two windows to Union Passage, glazing-bar sashes, six/six, in plain reveals. Altered mid C19 shop with pilastered doorway. Narrow chamfered revealed window to splayed corner first floor, four/four sashes. Three window return to Northumberland Place, coupled by corner, chamfered reveals, glazing bars, six/six sashes, left hand second floor window of pair blind. two-storey part, No.8 Northumberland Place, formerly separate property, listed as part of Nos 5-8 Northumberland Place (qv). Lintel, moulded cornice and parapet, mansard roof with two flat topped dormers to Northumberland Place, plain, and one to Union Passage. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Union Passage was undertaken as a part of the scheme of improvement for the City centre following the Bath Improvement Act of 1789. It is a street line known to survive from the Saxon period, previously Cox Lane, it is shown on Smith's map of 1588. Northumberland Place was built on the site of a medieval close, Marchant's Court, which is clearly shown on Gilmore's Map of 1694.

Listing NGR: ST7503764864

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
510823
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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