8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395474
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1395474
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
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:
- 8, UPPER CHURCH STREET
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 74607 65397
Details
UPPER CHURCH STREET 656-1/30/2545 (East side) No.8
(Formerly Listed as: UPPER CHURCH STREET No.1 (Park View House) & Nos 2-8 (consec)) 12/06/50
GV II*
House at corner with Upper Church Street and Catharine Place and taller than adjacent houses. c1780. Probably developed by John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double pitched slate mansard roof with three dormers and moulded stacks to party walls. PLAN: Double depth plan. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attic and basement, five-window front. Returned coped parapet, modillion cornice, ground floor platband and plinth, painted basement, six/six-pane sash windows all without horns, those to front lower floors with splayed reveals, those to first floor with semi-elliptical plan balconettes, to right of centre pedimented stone Tuscan doorcase with engaged columns and set back six-panel door. Four-window left return in Catharine Place has mostly blind windows to right, left hand range has six/six-pane sash windows, tripartite window to second floor, Venetian window with balconette and splayed reveals to first floor and similar flat arched window to ground floor. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but 1945 photos in the National Monuments Record reveal fine plasterwork: overmantel panel containing fine oval medallion based on the antique suspended from strings of husks looped and festooned over paterae, above fireplace with stone surround, anthemion-enriched consoles to either side. Also contains a first floor music room with coved ceiling, with star burst to centre and musical trophies within fronds, fronting Catharine Place. Listed Grade II* on account of interior. SOURCES: Walter Ison, 'The Georgian Buildings of Bath' (2nd ed 1980), 211.
Listing NGR: ST7460765397
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510878
- 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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