26, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS, 12, UNION STREET

12, UNION STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395429
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: 26, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS, 12, UNION STREET
Statutory Address:: 12, UNION STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395429
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 26, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS, 12, UNION STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 12, UNION STREET
Statutory Address 2:: 26, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 12, UNION STREET
Statutory Address:: 26, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS

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 75004 64894

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/10/2012

656-1/41/1715 05/08/75

UNION STREET (East side) No.12

GV II

Shop with accommodation over. c1806 with C20 addition. Building probably supervised by City Architect, John Palmer, but to earlier (c1791) elevations by Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, now painted, roof not visible from street. PLAN: Single depth plan. backing onto No.22 Upper Borough Walls. EXTERIOR: Four storeys. Two windows to Union Street, one to splayed corner, one to Upper Borough Walls. Late C20 shopfront. Windows above six/six sashes in plain reveals to first floor, small paned casements above. Second floor sill band, lintel, slight moulded cornice, parapet. Nos 13-15 (not included) matching facsimiles following damage in WWII. INTERIOR: Not inspected. Included for group value. HISTORY: Union Street was first proposed as one of the improvements to the City centre following the Bath Improvement Act of 1789. It was intended to improve communications between the Pump Room and Baths, and the Upper Town, and was to have elevations designed by Thomas Baldwin; but it was not built until 1806.

Listing NGR: ST7500464894

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Legacy System number:: 510834
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.