1 AND 2, MACAULAY BUILDINGS
1 AND 2, MACAULAY BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395569
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, MACAULAY BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, MACAULAY BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395569
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 2, MACAULAY BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, MACAULAY BUILDINGS
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:
- 1 AND 2, MACAULAY BUILDINGS
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 76364 63895
Details
MACAULAY BUILDINGS (South side) Nos.1 AND 2 (Formerly Listed as: WIDCOMBE HILL (South side) Nos 1 & 2 Macauley Buildings) 11/08/72
GV II
Pair of semi-detached villas. 1819-30 with C20 additions. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. PLAN: Broad frontage with double segmental bows, and wide single span roof incorporating cross-wing. Rear full storey deeper than front, resulting from fall across site. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, attic and basement, each two windows, glazing bar sashes, sixteen-pane at each level to bows, central twelve-pane above original panelled doors with shallow transom lights, and to cornice hoods on brackets. No.1 has wide slated dormer incorporating two casements, and lay-light to basement. Broad mid platband, lintel, frieze, cornice, blocking course and parapet. At each end two ashlar stacks. Gabled return, right, has sixteen-pane sash at three levels, with two plain sash to lower ground floor, front cornice returns, stopped to slightly projecting gable end. Left return has inserted nine-pane lights to each floor, and large one storey gabled extension with deep sixteen-pane sash, additional stack in re-entrant between main and projecting gables. Rear wall plain, with nine and twelve-pane sashes above large flat roofed extension to No.1. No.2, in two windows, twelve and sixteen-pane above two plain, with paired plain sash at ground floor, paired plain, with door and conservatory at lower ground. Extension has large paired plain sashes at two levels. INTERIORS: Not inspected. HISTORY: One of three pairs of similar but not identical villas, (qv 3/4 and 5/6), with extensive views to both front and rear, and externally little changed. The development was undertaken by Thomas Macaulay Cruttwell, a solicitor, on fields formerly called `The Nedges'. He purchased the ground in 1819 and the first house was completed inn 1825; the rest were finished in 1830. SOURCES: Maurice Scott, `Discovering Widcombe and Lyncombe, Bath' (2nd ed 1993), 36.
Listing NGR: ST7636463895
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510981
- 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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