20, 21 AND 22, UNION STREET
20, 21 AND 22, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395433
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 20, 21 AND 22, UNION STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, 21 AND 22, UNION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395433
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 20, 21 AND 22, UNION STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, 21 AND 22, UNION STREET
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:
- 20, 21 AND 22, UNION STREET
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 75021 64827
Details
UNION STREET 656-1/41/1717 (East side) Nos.20, 21 AND 22
(Formerly Listed as: UNION STREET (East side) Nos.19-22 (Consec)) 05/08/75
GV II
Shops with accommodation over. c1806, altered C20. Building probably supervised by City Architect, John Palmer, but to earlier (c1791) elevations by Thomas Baldwin. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, painted except attic floor of Nos 21 and 22, roofs not visible from street. PLAN: Deep single depth plan backing onto Nos 3-5 Union Passage (qv). EXTERIOR: Three storeys and attics, three windows each, being nine centre bays of symmetrical terrace. Nos 20 and 22 break back behind Nos 19 and 23, while No.21 breaks forward again, each break with giant 1/4 Corinthian pilaster. Late C20 shopfronts, 1 to both Nos 21 and 22. First floor of No.20 has Edwardian display window, four lights divided by Ionic half columns carrying entablature. Nos 21 and 22 centre window with cornice head, sunk panels over side windows (No.20 would also have originally had this). Sill band to second floor, windows in plain reveals. Windows are plate glass with transom to Nos 21 and 22. No.20 has six/six sashes on second floor and attic, blind central window in attic. Nos 21 and 22 have small paned casements to attic. Cornice over second floor, cornice and parapet to attic storey, stone stacks without pots. INTERIORS: Ground floors retain nothing of special interest, interiors otherwise not inspected. HISTORY: These three premises are the centre-piece of a formerly balanced terrace of thirty-one bays stretching between Northumberland Place and Cheap Street, of which the right hand eight bays have been redeveloped in the C20, and the adjoining three bay premises (No.23) is a post WWII semi-facsimile reconstruction. The full design of this terrace is now difficult to read (qv Nos 16-19) because of alterations; the awkward descent down the hill further lessens the impact of this formerly imposing development. 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; but it was not built until 1806. SOURCES: Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 86; Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-; Lees-Milne J and Ford D: Images of Bath: London: 1982-: 879.
Listing NGR: ST7502164827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510838
- 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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