4, 5 AND 6, CHAPEL ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395500
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: 4, 5 AND 6, CHAPEL ROW
Statutory Address:: 4, 5 AND 6, CHAPEL ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395500
Date first listed:: 12-Jun-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: 4, 5 AND 6, CHAPEL ROW
Statutory Address 1:: 4, 5 AND 6, CHAPEL ROW

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 4, 5 AND 6, CHAPEL ROW

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 74740 64921

Details

CHAPEL ROW (South side)

Nos.4, 5 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: CHAPEL ROW Nos.1-9 (Consec)) 12/06/50

GV II

Three terrace houses. c1734, with C19 and C20 alterations. By John Wood the Elder. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. PLAN: Town houses with shops, with deep mansard roofs. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, each three windows, all sashes, in eared architraves to second floor, and plain architraves with floating cornice and sills on brackets to first floor. Each has single dormer, Nos 4 and 5 have plain sashes, and No.6 has twelve-pane sashes. Ground floor No.4 has panelled door in architrave to left, and large plate glass display window, with some glass block pavement lights. No.5 similar, with altered mid C19 shop. No.6 has late C19 shopfront surround with 1935 shop window, with deep central door, and further door to left, under transom light. All under full width fascia with dentil cornice and consoles. Group has no platband, cornice with shallow blocking course and parapet, with deep stacks to left, and coped party divisions at ends only. This group of houses stepped up from next group to right. INTERIORS: No. 5 was inspected by Bath Council 1981. The first floor front room is panelled, original cornices. Original stairs and Doric colonnette banisters. HISTORY: Part of a relatively low-status row designed by Wood the Elder as part of the western extension of the city. The houses were first rated in 1734. Although clearly planned as complete terrace of nine properties, there are slight differences in detail from Nos 1-3 (qv). The street name derives from a chapel built by Wood nearby, off Queen Square, in 1732 and demolished in 1875. SOURCES: Finch G: Shopfront Record, Bath City Council: 1992-.

Listing NGR: ST7474064921

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Legacy System number:: 510906
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.