Broadleys Vaults Public House

BROADLEYS VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395444
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Broadleys Vaults Public House
Statutory Address:
BROADLEYS VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1395444
Date first listed:
11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:
Broadleys Vaults Public House
Statutory Address 1:
BROADLEYS VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BROADLEYS VAULTS PUBLIC HOUSE, 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 74883 64869

Details

UPPER BOROUGH WALLS 656-1/40/1724 (North side) Broadleys Vaults Public House

(Formerly Listed as: UPPER BOROUGH WALLS (North side) Broadleys Vaults Public House and Gascoyne House) 11/08/72

GV II

Public house, restaurant. c1789. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Wide-frontage shallow property, with high mansard roof, short return to Barton Street, where it abuts former Trim Street Unitarian Chapel (qv). EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement. Main front comprises a pair of tripartite windows flanking a central single bay over door. Windows mainly twelve-pane sashes. Small central dormer and flanking dormers with paired casements, all with glazing bars, above central sash flanked by tripartite sashes, those at second floor having blind lights each side of twelve-pane, and at first floor with full width pediments formed by slight raised mouldings, right hand window with blind outer lights. Ground floor has further tripartite window with blind outer lights, and smaller tripartite with plain sash to right. Centred panelled door with deep transom light. Small plinth, dying to right, platband above ground floor, sill bands to first and second floors, and frieze with cornice, blocking course and parapet, all returned to small splay, with blind lights at each level, and to left, with blind lights at second and first floors. On the splay and the short return the platband carries parish boundary markers S M P and S P P P. Right hand end has coped party division, with large stack, and further stack to rear, left. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The property faces Saw Close, and is an important element in the total ensemble there including the Theatre Royal (qv). It was formerly part of a longer terrace (see also Gascoyne House), broken by a later refacing to the central range in the street.

Listing NGR: ST7488364869

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
510848
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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