Kelso House: Former Gas Works Offices
KELSO HOUSE: FORMER GAS WORKS OFFICES, UPPER BRISTOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395451
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Kelso House: Former Gas Works Offices
- Statutory Address:
- KELSO HOUSE: FORMER GAS WORKS OFFICES, UPPER BRISTOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395451
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Kelso House: Former Gas Works Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- KELSO HOUSE: FORMER GAS WORKS OFFICES, UPPER BRISTOL ROAD
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:
- KELSO HOUSE: FORMER GAS WORKS OFFICES, UPPER BRISTOL ROAD
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 73699 65209
Details
UPPER BRISTOL ROAD 656-1/28/2473 (South side) Kelso House: Former Gas Works Offices
(Formerly Listed as: UPPER BRISTOL ROAD Offices of Gas Works) 05/08/75
GV II
Offices of utility company, now offices. 1858-1859. By Manners and Gill. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Square block with central entrance. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, attic and basement, five windows. Ground floor rusticated, with voussoir heads to openings. Arched windows with four/four sashes. Six-panel door with plain fan over. Platband at first floor level, also sill band. First floor windows are segmental headed and have four/four sashes and eared architraves. Band above window heads carries incised lettering `BATH GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY'. Parapet, mansard roof with three flat-topped dormers, four/four sashes flank tripartite one with two/two flanking four/four sashes. West elevation has similar treatment with horizontals continued from front. Five windows, second one has blind on first floor, three narrow dormers with four/four sashes. East elevation similar. Rear elevation as front except four windows only with left hand one canted bay. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: First plans for bringing gas to Bath date from 1815. In 1819 an Act was passed confirming the company's right to light the city. The first gasometers, on this site, were housed within windowless wooden sheds. Local coal enabled gas to be produced cheaply. The 1858 campaign of rebuilding the premises reflected the company¿s success. The Bath Directory for 1858 records that a T Gill was Chairman of Directors of the Gas Company, possibly connected with the architect. A conservative design, firmly in the Georgian idiom, but serving a very modern enterprise. Indicative of the growing importance of utilities companies at this date, and of their desire to establish an image of solid respectability. Gas production ceased on this site in 1971 and the works suffered major demolition in 1983. SOURCE: Duncan Harper, `Bath at Work' (1989), 46-50.
Listing NGR: ST7369965209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510854
- 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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