18 AND 18A, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS

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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

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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

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 510847
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.