ROOD HOUSE

ROOD HOUSE, 21, MACAULAY BUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395609
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: ROOD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ROOD HOUSE, 21, MACAULAY BUILDINGS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395609
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: ROOD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ROOD HOUSE, 21, MACAULAY 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.

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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:: ROOD HOUSE, 21, 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 76494 63781

Details

MACAULAY BUILDINGS (West side) No.21 Rood House (Formerly Listed as: WIDCOMBE HILL (South side) Nos.21 AND 22) 05/08/75

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Detached Tudorbethan villa. c1830 with C20 alterations. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: Compact square double depth symmetrical block. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and lower ground floor, three windows, all two-light six-pane casements, to common stopped drip over first floor, with individual drips at ground floor, laylights to basement each side of central gabled porch with terminal cross on moulded pointed arch. Door has glazed panels, including pointed head. Crenellated parapet has simple cornice. To left on coped gables are two stacks, with heavy block like crenellated cappings, blind centre light, to right similar stack, on rear gable, with triple casement and sixteen-pane sash at top level, and large lean-to conservatory at ground level on projecting lower ground floor wing. Rear asymmetrical, with high crenellated gable to left, having small square light above plain triple casement with thin stone mullions, and crenellated bay. To right high ashlar attic with tripartite plain sash, centre light higher, above straight crenellated parapet to canted bay with one:three:one-light sashes. INTERIOR: No.21 recorded by Bath Preservation Trust 1990's. Has retained most of its features. HISTORY: Part of speculative development embracing Nos 1-20 Macaulay Buildings, undertaken by Thomas Macaulay Cruttwell from 1819 onwards, this, with No.22 (qv) is slightly later than remainder, and demonstrates the change in style from Neo-Classical conformity to Romantic eclecticism.

Listing NGR: ST7649463781

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Legacy System number:: 511019
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.