1 and 2 Down House

1 and 2, Down House, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395450
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Down House
Statutory Address:: 1 and 2, Down House, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395450
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 1 and 2 Down House
Statutory Address 1:: 1 and 2, Down House, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AP

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:: 1 and 2, Down House, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3AP

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:: ST7398165165

Details

05/08/1975

UPPER BRISTOL ROAD Nos. 1 and 2 Down House

(Formerly listed as Nos. 1 and 2 Down Street)

II A pair of houses, originally one house, c1820. Limestone ashlar. Roof concealed behind parapet, large gable end stacks on side parapets.

PLAN: former central entrance and stair hall, double depth room arrangement on each side. Secondary entrance to the left.

EXTERIOR: three storeys with a symmetrical three bay front with giant corner pilasters; cornice, parapet and string course at first floor window cill level. Ground and first floor have twelve pane sashes, second floor have nine pane sashes with a tall eighteen pane stair window at the centre of the first floor over central doorway with small flanking window to the right.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a pair of Bath stone shallow vases with mask ornament flank the door openings.

HISTORY: the elevation is similar to the work of John Pinch, carried out on the Bathwick Estate at the same time. The house has been sub-divided for a considerable time, as the dwarf wall running up to the inserted door openings appears to be late Victorian in date.

Listing NGR: ST7398165165

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 510853
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.