GASCOYNE HOUSE

GASCOYNE HOUSE, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395445
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:: GASCOYNE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GASCOYNE HOUSE, UPPER BOROUGH WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395445
Date first listed:: 11-Aug-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: GASCOYNE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GASCOYNE HOUSE, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GASCOYNE 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 74903 64876

Details

UPPER BOROUGH WALLS 656-1/40/1725 (North side) Gascoyne House

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

GV II

Houses with shops. c1789 with C20 additions. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. PLAN: Broad frontage properties on shallow sites. EXTERIOR: Consists of two distinct sections. Left hand section of five bays; lower narrower right hand section similar in elevational treatment to Broadleys Vaults to left (q.v.). Lofty three storeys with basement, five windows, all sixteen-pane sash in plain reveals. Ground floor has two doors centrally, that to right with deep reveals and pilasters with entablature, and on three high steps with cast iron vented risers. To left wide opening with C20 doors and flat hood, and to right mid/late C19 three-pane display front, and further plain sash far right. Pavement grilles and heads to basement lights. Across full width platband above ground floor, moulded band above first floor, and main cornice with blocking course and parapet, two circular vents with conical caps visible behind parapet, stands higher than those to each side. Right hand section resembles in detail Broadleys Vaults (qv), on the other end of the centre unit of this short row; in three storeys, attic and basement, with slate and Roman tile mansard roof. Two two-light casement dormers above plain sashes; at second floor a central single flanked by tripartite units, but outer lights blind, and first floor with the same, but under wide pediments enclosed by thin mouldings. The ground floor has four large plain sashes above pavement grilles; on the corner splay are plain sash above a wide door. The return, to Trim Bridge, has plain sash, paired to the ground floor. A small plinth, sill bands, and frieze with cornice, blocking course and parapet run the full width, splay, and return, and on the splay are inscribed the parish markers S P P P and S M P. There is a small stack to the rear. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The left hand section is a rebuilding or refacing to an earlier building. This range of buildings was formerly a continuous terrace, but the centre part has been raised and refaced.

Listing NGR: ST7490364876

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 510849
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.