18 AND 18A, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS
18 AND 18A, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395443
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 18A, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 18A, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395443
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 18A, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 18A, 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:
- 18 AND 18A, 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 74926 64884
Details
UPPER BOROUGH WALLS 656-1/40/1723 (North side) Nos.18 AND 18A 05/08/75
GV II
House with shops. Mid C18 with C19 and C20 additions. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, roof not visible. PLAN: Long narrow plot. EXTERIOR: Two storeys and attic over basement. Principal front to Trim Bridge comprises a Palladian pedimented front with a Venetian (or Serlian) window to first floor, with moulded sill carried on four consoles, modillion cornice. Plat band at first floor bears inscription `TRIM BRIDGE' in fine incised Roman lettering; other incised inscriptions (SMP, SPPP) mark parish boundaries. Ground floor has six-panel door to left set in deep reveals and on three steps, in moulded architrave with pulvinated frieze and cornice; late C19 shopfront with tripartite window, fascia and dentil cornice. In plinth are heads of three basement lights, with splayed surrounds. Tall attic is a later addition: three plate glass sash windows, small cavetto cornice with blocking course and parapet, flat roof. Long return to Upper Borough Walls, parallel with line of city wall, is plainer. Seven window elevation, windows placed three-one-three: left-hand trio to first floor comprises a blind central opening with plate glass sashes either side, central window is two/two pane sash at mid-floor level running through plat-band; right hand trio comprises a plate glass sash window flanked by blind windows. Ground floor has small square display window with panelled door and transom light, left, with late C20 poor display window to right. Two plate glass sashes to right hand of attic beneath cornice. Returned end plain, in rubble, overlooking former burial ground that lay just outside the city walls. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: A fashionably Palladian exterior, forming a prominent corner feature to this extramural development, and showing the influence of the elder John Wood.
Listing NGR: ST7492664884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510847
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 09-Jun-2026 at 16:28:14.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.