26, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS, 12, UNION STREET
12, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395429
- Date first listed:
- 05-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:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510834
- 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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